| Affiliation: | A. Hunter Dupree is George L. Littlefield Professor of History, Brown University, and Talcott Parsons is professor emeritus of sociology, Harvard University. This article, the work for which has been carried out with support from the committees on research funds of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is reprinted with minor revisions from the Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;(May 1976), pp. 14–18. Reprinted by permission of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
