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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Page 71
... remarkable objects into existence . In his autobiography he describes his visit to them , and says : With the one memorial is associated the name of Cheops , or , as he is now called , Shufu or Koofoo —a king who , if we may believe ...
... remarkable objects into existence . In his autobiography he describes his visit to them , and says : With the one memorial is associated the name of Cheops , or , as he is now called , Shufu or Koofoo —a king who , if we may believe ...
Page 140
... remarkable personages arranged according to their places of birth , as a basis for his thesis that density of population is the leading factor in the production of talent . In the second edition of this work , after so long an interval ...
... remarkable personages arranged according to their places of birth , as a basis for his thesis that density of population is the leading factor in the production of talent . In the second edition of this work , after so long an interval ...
Page 149
... remarkable to how large an extent all this has consisted in mere assertion , or in proof of the most vague and general character . For the events of history in general there has as yet been discovered no definite form of evi- dence that ...
... remarkable to how large an extent all this has consisted in mere assertion , or in proof of the most vague and general character . For the events of history in general there has as yet been discovered no definite form of evi- dence that ...
Page 165
... remarkable showing , and very little attempt has been made to answer the argument . We can barely imagine what science would have been without Agassiz , Berzelius , Euler , Jenner , Linnæus , Wollaston . We can think of history without ...
... remarkable showing , and very little attempt has been made to answer the argument . We can barely imagine what science would have been without Agassiz , Berzelius , Euler , Jenner , Linnæus , Wollaston . We can think of history without ...
Page 168
... remarkable contingent of men of letters of talent , remain on the contrary for almost all the periods behind the Protestant clergy . Their inferiority is espe- cially evident in the two last periods , during which the pastors furnished ...
... remarkable contingent of men of letters of talent , remain on the contrary for almost all the periods behind the Protestant clergy . Their inferiority is espe- cially evident in the two last periods , during which the pastors furnished ...
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