Catastrophe and Social Change / Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster

by Samuel Henry Prince

And God fulfils Himself in many ways

Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

—Tennyson, Alfred, The Passing of Arthur.

[4] Ross, Edward A., Foundations of Sociology (N. Y., 1905), ch. viii, p. 189.

[5] Ross, [op. cit.], p. 198.

[6] Jeune, Sir Francis, a celebrated judge in divorce cases.

[7] Mathews, Shailer, The Church in the Changing Order (N. Y., 1907), ch. i, p. 1.

[8] Thomas, William I., Source Book of Social Origins (Chicago, 1909), Introduction, p. 17.

[9] Giddings, Franklin H., “Pluralistic Behaviour,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. xxv, no. 4 (Jan., 1920), p. 401.

[10] The phrases “The world in a welter,” “nations in the melting pot,” “life in the smelting oven,” are commonly heard and suggest a solution stage prior to the hardening process, or antecedent to crystallization.