The Study of Sociology

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D. Appleton, 1874 - Sociology - 423 pages
 

Contents

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II
25
III
48
IV
72
V
75
VI
113
VII
147
VIII
178
IX
204
X
241
XI
263
XII
292
XIII
314
XIV
327
XV
355
XVI
384

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Page 271 - is not to be successfully dealt with after those common-sense methods in which you have so much confidence. What, then, shall we say about a society ? " Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ?" asks Hamlet. Is humanity more readily straightened than an iron plate
Page v - into the consensus of succeeding ones, Such alone is the kind of information, respecting past times, which can be of service to the citizen for the regulation of his conduct. The only history that is of practical value is, what may be called
Page 220 - From Mr. Arnold's method let us turn to some of his specific statements; taking first the statement that the English are deficient in ideas. He says : — " There is the world of ideas, and there is the world of practice ; the French are often for suppressing the one, and the English the other.
Page vi - And the highest office which the historian can discharge is that of so narrating the lives of nations as to furnish materials for a Comparative Sociology, and for the subsequent determination of the ultimate laws to which social phenomena conform.
Page 37 - It is in this marvellous power in men to do wrong . . . that the impossibility stands of forming scientific calculations of what men will do before the fact, or scientific explanations of what they have done after the fact." " " Mr. Buckle would deliver himself from the eccentricities of this and
Page 415 - The doubt which was laid revives, and shows itself in new difficulties ; and that generally because the mind which is perpetually tossed in controversies is apt to forget the reasons which had once set it at rest

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