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which, the constituent Units of the Community "become ever 

 more distinctly individuated." 



In the next chapter I shall proceed to show how this ex- 

 ceedingly general and technical formula includes and justifies 

 whatever is defensible in sundry less abstract generalizations, 

 expressed in more popular language, by Comte and Buckle. 

 We shall be called upon to pass in review certain phases of 

 social evolution, aud to criticize, with the aid of the theorems 

 now at our disposal, the claims of Comte to be regarded as 

 the founder of sociology. 



