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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... say that the complex sciences were more easily understood than the simple ones ; on the contrary , he constantly insists on their greater difficulty of comprehension . The principle under considera- tion , fully stated , would be that ...
... say that the complex sciences were more easily understood than the simple ones ; on the contrary , he constantly insists on their greater difficulty of comprehension . The principle under considera- tion , fully stated , would be that ...
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... says : Social progress is supposed to consist in the produce of a greater quantity and variety of the articles required for satisfying men's wants ; in the increas- ing security of person and property ; in the widening freedom of action ...
... says : Social progress is supposed to consist in the produce of a greater quantity and variety of the articles required for satisfying men's wants ; in the increas- ing security of person and property ; in the widening freedom of action ...
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... says that " this law of organic progress is the law of all progress . " If this and not the other be the true ... say that development or evolu- tion would here suit the case better , and social progress may still have as at least one of ...
... says that " this law of organic progress is the law of all progress . " If this and not the other be the true ... say that development or evolu- tion would here suit the case better , and social progress may still have as at least one of ...
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... says , that it might do harm , and also because he admits the possibility that he may be wrong , noble motives , as all must freely confess . The socialists admit the most that is claimed by the pessimists , but differ from them chiefly ...
... says , that it might do harm , and also because he admits the possibility that he may be wrong , noble motives , as all must freely confess . The socialists admit the most that is claimed by the pessimists , but differ from them chiefly ...
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... says that " they thinke no kinde of pleasure forbydden whereof cometh no harme . " Other passages might doubtless be found scattered at rare intervals through the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the effect that ...
... says that " they thinke no kinde of pleasure forbydden whereof cometh no harme . " Other passages might doubtless be found scattered at rare intervals through the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the effect that ...
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