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the other hand, is a science of yesterday, because it 

 is a branch of the science of biology, as this is, in 

 its turn, of the physico-chemical sciences, and it 

 was necessary that the former should progress that 

 the latter might follow. 



Sociology has not yet had time to be integrated 

 in the great law of evolution. Neither A. Comte, 

 the true founder of sociology, nor H. Spencer, who 

 has completed the best synthesis, has succeeded 

 in interpreting this new science as a stated theory, 

 simply because their brains could not dissever 

 themselves from the dead-weight which the con- 

 ception of property, accumulated during so many 

 years, represents in the human intelligence. 



I do not think more can be said than what 

 Marx has stated, as to his criticism on capital, nor 

 that human aspirations will find their solution with 

 the capitalist or collectivist system ; I have there- 

 fore asserted, in reference to this period of evolu- 

 tion, with which all this economic organisation is 

 concerned, that it is a false evolution, like some 

 that exist in biology, and that they will ultimately 

 disappear, when the time arrives when their con- 

 ditions are inadaptable to their surroundings. 

 " Other false groups," says Laloy, " are those 

 which, after rising to a fixed organic level, 

 return to the state that their ancestors had long 

 abandoned. We have already quoted the example 



