CONTENTS 



FACE 



PREFACE . ix 



PART I 

 \/ INTRODUCTION , 3 



CHAPTER I 



AUGUSTE COMTE. Comte's Positive Philosophy a Prolegomenon to 



Sociology 12 



CHAPTER II 

 V HERBERT SPENCER. Cosmic Evolution 29 



CHAPTER HI 



SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY: 



L. A. J. Quetelet. The Statistical Method . . . . , 43 



Paid Von Lilienfeld. The Analogical Method 47 



Guillaume De Greef. Classification as a Method of Sociological 



Knowledge 49 



PART II 

 PASSIVE PHYSICAL AND PHYSIO-SOCIAL ADAPTATION 



CHAPTER IV 



BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: 



Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. Use-Inheritance 56 



Charles Darwin. Natural Selection 58 



August Weismann, Continuity of the Germ-Plasm 68 



Hugo de Vries. Mutations 70 



Johann Gregor Mendel. Independent Unit Characters . ... 71 



CHAPTER V 



NEO-DARWINIAN SOCIOLOGISTS: 



Friedrich Nietzsche. Evolution of the Super-Man 80 



Benjamin Kidd. Religion and Social Progress 85 



. Galton and Pearson. National Eugenics 92 



Vacher de Lapouge. Societal Selections 99 



