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10 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
part toward turning the forces of reconstruction in the most profitable directions.
We shall neither boast of the share of this Journal in the development of sociology during the past ten years, nor shall we profess to believe that it has been inconsiderable. Whatever may be the due appraisal of its past, the second decade of its work begins with confidence that the sociologists have a mission among the interpreters of life, and with a renewed pledge of the utmost endeavor to promote their labors, and to enlarge the circle of thinkers who will pay due attention to their results.
