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Turning now to "Pure Sociology," we are 

 told that the subject-matter of sociology is 

 "human achievement." When we ask, in what 

 does this achievement consist, we are inform- 

 ed that: "Achievement does not consist in 

 wealth. Wealth is fleeting and ephemeral. 

 Achievement is permanent and eternal." 



Again the sum total of the things which 

 constitute achievement may be summed up in 

 the one word "inventions." 



Achievement with Ward is another name 

 for civilization. Page after page is given to 

 an enumeration of its particulars, — music, 

 painting, poetry, exploration, industry and 

 many other things which we have not space 

 even to mention. The one thing that is vital 

 here is that "achievement," while it does not 

 include perishable wealth, nor yet the actual, 

 perishable machinery by which the wealth has 

 been produced, does nevertheless undoubtedly 

 include that something described by Social- 

 ists as the "process of production." 



This is of prime importance because now 

 when we turn to Ward's "Applied Sociology," 

 we find that not only achievement, but "im- 

 provement" is the theme of that branch of the 

 science. 



And now listen to this great American so- 

 ciologist, who has so far outstripped all his 



