Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by SocietyGinn, 1906 - 384 pages This work and its predecessor, Pure Sociology, constitute together a system of sociology, and these, with Dynamic Sociology, The Psychic Factors of Civilization, and the Outlines of Sociology, make up a more comprehensive system of social philosophy. Should any reader acquaint himself with the whole, he will find it not only consistent with itself, but progressive in the sense that each successive volume carries the subject a step farther with a minimum of repetition or duplicate treatment. The central thought is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. If there is one respect in which it differs more than in others from rival systems of philosophy it is in its practical character of never losing sight of the end or purpose, nor of the possibilities of conscious effort. It is a reaction against the philosophy of despair that has come to dominate even the most enlightened scientific thought. It aims to point out a remedy for the general paralysis that is creeping over the world, and which a too narrow conception of the law of cosmic evolution serves rather to increase than to diminish. It proclaims the efficacy of effort, provided it is guided by intelligence. It would remove the embargo laid upon human activity by a false interpretation of scientific determinism, and, without having recourse to the equally false conception of a power to will, it insists upon the power to act. - Preface. |
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... departments . By provinces . By regions . — Small effect of the physical environment The Ethnological Environment . Race influence on genius . Races of France . Gauls , Cimbrians , Iberians , Ligurians , Belgians . — Genius not ...
... departments . By provinces . By regions . — Small effect of the physical environment The Ethnological Environment . Race influence on genius . Races of France . Gauls , Cimbrians , Iberians , Ligurians , Belgians . — Genius not ...
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... Departments of France in Men of Letters . . 151 PLATE II . Map showing the Fecundity of the Provinces of France in Men of Letters PLATE III . Map showing the Fecundity of the seven recognized Regions of France in Men of Letters . PLATE ...
... Departments of France in Men of Letters . . 151 PLATE II . Map showing the Fecundity of the Provinces of France in Men of Letters PLATE III . Map showing the Fecundity of the seven recognized Regions of France in Men of Letters . PLATE ...
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... departments now found to be the most useful are the ones that were unknown a century ago , and long remained fields of mere idle curiosity , regarded as the farthest possible removed from any practical utility . In this respect bac ...
... departments now found to be the most useful are the ones that were unknown a century ago , and long remained fields of mere idle curiosity , regarded as the farthest possible removed from any practical utility . In this respect bac ...
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... department of science that did not at first have appearances against it . The whole march of truth has consisted in substituting the hidden and obscure reality for the falsely apparent . With this uniform trend of history before us , we ...
... department of science that did not at first have appearances against it . The whole march of truth has consisted in substituting the hidden and obscure reality for the falsely apparent . With this uniform trend of history before us , we ...
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... department . A writer of Galton's school , Mr. Grant Allen , in a review of Dynamic Sociology , in which this subject was discussed , made this remark : In a class of fifteen boys of fifteen years old , taken from the exceptionally ...
... department . A writer of Galton's school , Mr. Grant Allen , in a review of Dynamic Sociology , in which this subject was discussed , made this remark : In a class of fifteen boys of fifteen years old , taken from the exceptionally ...
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