由于实际上把只是地区上邻近的人们或者某一机构的正式成员同真正的共同体混同,因此,我们不妨看一看早期美国的人口、经济和社会情况是怎样影响共同体形成的过程的。让我们扼要地考察一世纪以前的情况。当时在农业区的美国人是34,427,000人,市镇居民不到十万人。另外有4,128,000人住在人口十万至一百万之间的城市。当时的城市没有一个超过一 By actually confining just people in the neighborhood or regular members of an institution with a genuine community, let us look at how the population, economic and social conditions of the early United States affected the process of community formation. Let us briefly examine the situation a century ago. At that time, there were 34,427,000 Americans in the agricultural area and less than 100,000 inhabitants of the town. In addition, 4,128,000 live in cities with a population between 100,000 and 1 million. None of the cities at the time was more than one