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social inheritance and social variation in a word, 

 of social evolution. Where is all the knowledge 

 to be found ? Who are its guardians and con- 

 tinuators ? Are they not called historians and 

 economists, political philosophers and comparative 

 jurists, anthropologists and folk-lorists, psycholo- 

 gists and aestheticists, students of ethics and of 

 comparative religion ? Are not all the foregoing 

 of the nature of Regular orders engaged in study- 

 ing the various aspects of our social heritage of 

 industry and commerce, of law and morals, of 

 religion and art, of language and literature, of 

 science and philosophy ? If they are not, who 

 and where are the Regulars of Social Science ? 

 who and where the Seculars ? Occupied on the 

 practical side of our social life are the merchants 

 and the manufacturers, the politicians and the 

 lawyers, the journalists and orators, the artists 

 and literary men, the teachers and professors, the 

 moralists and priests. Which amongst all these 

 are the Seculars of Social Science ? which the 

 persistent survivals of the pre-scientific ages ? 



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To answer these questions we must ask what 

 vision is seen by psychologist and sociologist in 

 their cosmic or naturalist mood, and what in 

 their humanist mood ? What potencies do they 

 see in social evolution, in city development ? 

 What groups (if any) of more militant type are 



inspired by these visions of social potency, to 



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