About Robert Staughton Lynd:
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Staughton LyndIt is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Staughton LyndThere is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
Robert Staughton Lynd