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are. This inadequacy, indeed, of modern sociology 

 to meet the practical problems of our time, has 

 become a by-word. Mr. Leslie Stephen pronounces 

 the existing science " a heap of vague empirical 

 observation, too flimsy to be useful " ; and Mr. 

 Huxley, exasperated with the condition in which it 

 leaves the human family, protests that " if there is 

 no hope of a large improvement " he should " hail 

 the advent of some kindly comet which would 

 sweep the whole affair away." 



The first step in the reconstruction of Sociology 

 will be to escape from the shadow of Darwinism — 

 or rather to complement the Darwinian formula of 

 the Struggle for Life by a second factor which will 

 turn its darkness into light. A new morphology 

 can only come from a new physiology, and vice 

 versa; and for both we must return to Nature. 

 The one-sided induction has led Sociology into a 

 wilderness of empiricism, and only a complete in- 

 duction can reinstate it among the sciences. The 

 vacant place is there awaiting it ; and every earnest 

 mind is prepared to welcome it, not only as the 

 coming science, but as the crowning Science of 

 all the sciences, the Science, indeed, for which it 

 will one day be seen every other science exists. 

 What it waits for meantime is what every science 

 has had to wait for, exhaustive observation of the 



