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Ne it. DR. J. LIONEL TAYLER (Author of "_Aspects of Social Evolution_")
said: While agreeing with Prof. Geddes in his belief in the importance
of institutional and geographical studies as a basis for the
investigation of the development of cities, it yet seems to me that
these studies cannot prove of supreme value to society unless they are
accompanied by a detailed examination of the _natural_ characteristics
of all individuals who have been born into and existed in, or merely
dwelt in, these surroundings. It is not enough to trace out, however
accurately, the various stages of a town's growth from its commencement
to the present time, because _the cause_ of [Page: 126] the evolution of
any city aggregate lies deeper, is in large part animate, and not
inanimate, in character. The value of the surroundings depends at least
as much upon the capacity of the individual citizen, singly and
collectively, to utilise what he or she is brought in contact with as
upon the peculiarities of these surroundings themselves. Place,
tradition, social organisation, individual development, education, are
factors in town evolution that cannot safely be overlooked, and they all
vary from age to age and in place and place. If it were possible to
completely exchange the inhabitants of a large town in England with
those of an equally large town in France two groups of changes would
become more or less rapidly observable: (1) the French and English
citizens would adapt themselves, as far as they desired and were able,
to their altered conditions; (2) the characteristics of both towns would
gradually change, in spite of geographical position, in response to the
altered human needs. Similarly, a town composed of individuals who are
naturally uncultured and unprogressive will tend to preserve its
uncultured and unprogressive characters more than another that has alert
citizens to carry on its activities. Every profession and every trade
tends to foster its own social atmosphere; and