Show -- 16- Leaser officials usually practical enough never to appear dogmatic and wore agreeable to sudden changes Economic discipline has always been a permanent issue In all endeavor and the Corson problems were not lacking in this respect "Their social and conomic schemes with their attendant mechanism rare the most nearly oerfeot systems 3 ever established in the United States" To an extraordinary degree Mormons rare willing to sacrifice for the Examples typifying this trait are good of the group definitely in evidence should one care to investigate a were ' Mormon community Brigham Young discouraged raining and adventurous ic developpursuits because he had a theory of ment in accordance with which agriculture should cone first Hence agriculture manufacturing second and mining later socio-econom- was the foundation of of livelihood in so the Mormon many ways their religious conceptions economic life This mode approached the rudiments of Simplicity and humbleness were basic creeds of the pastoral subsistence which lent admirably to a life of godliness Richard T Harper's Uncmzlne h Ibid p "Economic Principles CVI (April 1903) p 669 Ely 669 itself of honnoniem " |