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Excerpt from The Principles of Sociology The traits and tendencies of society are in no small decree determined by its human composition. It is therefore necessary to consider, first of all, how the make up of the population varies in respect to age, sex, nativity, marital condition and mental capacity. Sex In old countries the sexes are rather evenly distributed but in the process of settling a new country the sexes become in some degree dissociated. Thus in the United States west of the Missouri River there are about three men for every two women. In mining and cattle raising states like Nevada, Montana and Wyoming the ratio is near two to one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.