15. Does the poll-tax payer pay, in any sense, more than his poll-tax?
16. Are there any taxes that people pay without seeming to know it? If so, what? (See below, chap. viii. section 8.).
17. Have we clans to-day among ourselves? (Think of family reunions, people of the same name in a community, descendants of early settlers, etc.). What important differences exist between these modern so-called clans and the ancient ones?
18. What is a "clannish" spirit? Is it a good spirit or a bad one? Is it ever the same as patriotism?
19. Look up the meaning of ham, wick, and stead. Think of towns whose names contain these words; also of towns whose names contain the word tun or ton or town.
20. Give an account of the tithing-man in early New England.
21. In what sense is the word "parish" commonly used in the United States? Is the parish the same as the church? Has it any limits of territory?
22. In Massachusetts, clergymen were formerly paid out of the taxes of the township. How did this come about? In this practice was there a union or a separation of church and state?
23. Ministers are not now supported by taxation in the United States. What important change in the parish idea does this fact indicate? Is it a change for the better?
24. Are women who do not vote represented in town government?