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phenomena are operated, just as all true physical science concerns 

 itself with physical forces. Perceiving this, he had recognized in 

 the physical desires of the human body the true social forces, and 

 he had formulated the distinction between the true scientific method 

 and that which is commonly pursued as the distinction between the 

 study of society from the standpoint of feeling and its study from 

 the standpoint of function. The current method of studying social 

 science was to study the acts themselves which the desires prompt 

 and their functional consequences; whereas the new and true method 

 would study only the desires themselves as social forces and the di- 

 rect results "accomplished by the individuals thus actuated for the 

 attainment of their satisfaction. The distinction is fundamental — 

 the former method being properly designated as the statical, the 

 latter as the dynamic method. 



Mr. Ward had drawn up a system of classification of the social 

 forces according to the dynamic method which he presented, with 

 suitable explanatory remarks, to the Anthropological Section of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science at its Boston 

 meeting in 1880, only a brief abstract of which was then published.* 

 The system thus sketched was more fully elaborated and in this 

 form was presented to this Society in a paper read on May 2, and 

 May 16, 1882, and illustrated by charts prepared by Dr. Frank 

 Baker. "I" As it was then about to be published in permanent form 

 it was not thought advisable to repeat it in the transactions of the 

 Society.;]: 



Mr. Ward placed on the blackboard the outline of his classifi- 

 cation of the social forces and showed that it coincided, with some 

 slight exceptions, entirely with that which Prof. Gregory had pre- 

 sented. 



Eighty-Third Regular Meeting, May 6, 1884. 

 Dr. Robert Fletcher, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



* Feeling and Function as Factors in Human Development. " Boston Adver- 

 tiser," Sept. I, 1880, p. I ; Tlie same more in detail with table of classification. 

 "Science," Oct. 23, 1880, p. 210. 



f Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, Vol. II, pp. 11, 

 12. 



+ See " Dynamic Sociology," New York, 1883, chapters VII and VIII. 





