ANALYTICAL CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



Science offers to supersede religion as guide to conduct In form of 

 theoretical sociology Appealing to biology and evolution Sociology 

 distinguished from politics From economics From social philo- 

 sophy Akin to evolutionary ethics Our point of view ; morality 

 taken for granted. 



PAET I 







COMTISM, WITH SOME SCATTERED PARALLELS 



CHAPTER II 

 COMTE'S LIFE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF ms TEACHING 



Comte as founder His life His books The term " Sociology " 

 " Statics " (cf. Spencer) " Dynamics " Divisions of the Polity 

 Comte's religion The term " Positive " Four authorities super- 

 seded Comte on psychology And on ethics Law of the three 

 stages Criticism Transition to the study of Comte's relation to 

 science He repudiates dogmatic atheism and materialism His scale 

 of values in the hierarchy of the sciences Spencer's criticism. 



