"Of all the problems which America faces on the land and on the seas, no one is so important as that of making regenerates out of degenerates. The massing of people in large cities, the incoming of vast multitudes from the impoverished masses of several European and Asiatic countries, the tendency to interpret liberty as license, the contagious nature of moral, as well as of physical, diseases combine to make it of the utmost importance that American enterprise and moral force find ways and means for accomplishing this transformation. Whatever contributes to the loosening of a problem by throwing light upon the conditions is of value in aiding in its solution, hence the publication of this study of the family of Jonathan Edwards as a contrast to the fact-based composite called the Jukes family. This book compares and contrasts the stark differences in the education, family backgrounds, achievement propensities, character, values, socioeconomic levels, and motivations of the members of these two families." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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