ABSTRACT
THE interplay of individual experience and belief has an evident relationship to the emergence of enterprise. Certain features of this kind occur with more than usual frequency in the histories
set out in Part Two. The independent farmer or individual entrepreneur is, in more instances than not, a man who has had a disturbed family history. His mother has been widowed or separated from her husband when he was at an early age. Material support has come, sometimes reluctantly, from members of the husband's family, with the mother living somewhat as a stranger-dependant; or from the wife's family, which has involved a change in residence. Hardship, both material and in terms of unsatisfied ambitions and strained personal relations, has been common, and has appeared to contribute to the development of a cynical or detached attitude on the part of the growing child towards his fellows. In some cases the theme of a growing apartness from society, or opposition to it, took a further turn with a romance against the interests of the lineage, and even abduction or run-away marriage.
