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his "Origin of Species " and, therefore, while 

 biology was yet in long clothes and sociology 

 was unborn. Although Comte is generally re- 

 garded as the founder of sociology, these 

 limitations made it impossible to do little more 

 than invent the name and foresee its possibility. 



These excuses, however, can scarcely be in- 

 voked for Haeckel, who, as we have already 

 seen, wholly ignored in his inferences, funda- 

 mental differences between the division of 

 labor in animal societies and that division in 

 human societies. Haeckel's biological sociology 

 conveniently overlooks the rather important 

 fact that while a working bee can not by any 

 possibility act as a drone, the working man 

 has at least no physical disabilities to prevent 

 him from doing anything that pertains to the 

 role of a prince. Reasoning by analogy is 

 always dangerous, especially when the analogy 

 itself breaks down. 



While it is well to keep these rules in mind, 

 it must be conceded that their critical applica- 

 tion is somewhat limited when we come to 

 Spencer's famous analogy between animal 

 organisms and human societies. The *'syn- 

 thetic" philosopher was much Haeckers 

 superior in sociology, and he possessed an 

 immense fund of bioloo^ical lore that was 



