This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE PROVINCE OF SOCIOLOGY. Such, in general, is the sociological idea. Of itself, however, it is not a science. A living science, holding the allegiance of practical investigators, is likely to be something less or something more than an organic part of a philosopher's system of knowledge. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE PROVINCE OF SOCIOLOGY. Such, in general, is the sociological idea. Of itself, however, it is not a science. A living science, holding the allegiance of practical investigators, is likely to be something less or something more than an organic part of a philosopher's system of knowledge. Comte invented the word sociology and built up a sociological theory, because he felt that the "philosophic positive" would be but a sorry fragment if left without a body of humanist doctrine to supplement biology. Mr. Spencer, with the results of a later and most brilliant half-century of discovery at his command, adopted the word and remoulded the doctrine, because he realized that a complete account of universal evolution must explain the origin and structure of human societies no less than the genesis of species and the integration of star-dust. But the question must now be raised--How much of this doctrine belongs properly within any one science? A social philosophy of Comtist or Spencerian dimensions ought, first of all, to determine its province by defining its relation to other branches of knowledge, and especially to those narrower sciences that have been dividing among themselves a patient and fruitful study of no small portion of observable social phenomena. We ought not to assume, without further analysis, that the natural interpretation of society is the function of one single, all-embracing science. The particular social sciences have not been altogether devoid of the positive character. One group of such studies, known collectively as the political sciences, includes political economy, the philosophy of law and the theory of the State. Another includes archaeology, comparative philology and the comparative study of religions....
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