THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY 



how this exceedingly general and technical for- 

 mula includes and justifies whatever is defensi- 

 ble in sundry less abstract generalizations, ex- 

 pressed in more popular language, by Comte 

 and Buckle. We shall be called upon to pass 

 in review certain phases of social evolution, and 

 to criticise, with the aid of the theorems now at 

 our disposal, the claims of Comte to be regarded 

 as the founder of sociology. 



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