ABSTRACT
In mental constitution men are more than social creatures, they are community animals. The most isolated men in the Southern mountains come to prefer their relative loneliness to any more intimate community life. Men who are not parts of some small community tend to be psychopathic or variants from a wholesome type. Men forced into too intimate and constant association become irritable or lose individuality. The idea that man is a small-community animal is supported by the science of anthropology. A large proportion of American farmers who lived on relatively isolated farms overcame that isolation to some degree and developed real community life among themselves. The predominant evidence of anthropology is that primitive men were community dwellers, and where vestiges of primitive life remain in out-of-the-way parts of the earth we find men living in true communities. Men are biologically and psychologically adjusted to community life.
