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3. To what extent the different branches of sociological 

 speculation can be studied apart. Political Economy 

 characterized ..... 568 



4. Political Ethology, or the science of national character . 575 



5. The Empirical Laws of the Social Science . . 579 



6. The Verification of the Social Science . . ,581 



CHAPTER X. Of the Inverse Deductive, or Historical 

 Method. 



1. Distinction between the general Science of Society, and 



special sociological inquiries . . . 585 



2. What is meant by a State of Society . . .585 



3. The Progressiveness of Man and Society . . 587 



4. The laws of the succession of states of society can only be 



ascertained by the Inverse Deductive Method . .591 



5. Social Statics, or the science of the Coexistences of Social 



Phenomena ..... 594 



6. Social Dynamics, or the science of the Successions of Social 



Phenomena . . . . 604 



7. Outlines of the Historical Method . . . 606 



8. Future prospects of Sociological inquiry . . 610 



CHAPTER XT. Of the Logic of Practice, or Art; including 

 Morality and Policy, 



1. Morality not a Science, but an Art . . .613 



2. Relation between rules of art and the theorems of the corre- 



sponding science ..... 613 



3. What is the proper function of rules of art? . . 615 



4. Art cannot be Deductive . . . .617 



5. Art consists of [the truths of Science, arranged in the order 



suitable for practical use .... 619 



6. Application of the preceding principles to Morality . 621 



7. Conclusion , 623 



