Theseideasarethebasis forourthoughtandpractice. Weareconstantlyrefined, reexamined, and have even been renamed throughout the social changes of thepast and present century.
This group, which I call the new clerisy, is based largely in academia and the federal bureaucracy, whose numbers and distinct privileges have grown throughoutthepast half century.
Of course, the U.S. has experienced many severe droughts during thepastcentury, including the Dust Bowl that produced major ecological and agricultural damage throughout American and Canadian prairies from 1930-36 (and in some areas, until 1940).