ANALYTICAL CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



Science offers to supersede religion as guide to conduct In form of 

 theoretical sociology Appealing to biology and evolution 

 Sociology distinguished from politics From economics From 

 social philosophy Akin to evolutionary ethics Our point of 

 view; morality taken for granted 



PART I 

 COMTISM, WITH SOME SCATTERED PARALLELS 



CHAPTER II 

 COMTE'S LIFE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF HIS TEACHING 



Comte as founder His life His books The term "Sociology" 

 " Statics " (cf. Spencer) " Dynamics " Divisions of the Polity 

 Comte's religion The term "Positive" Four authorities 

 superseded Comte on psychology And on ethics Law of 

 the three stages Criticism Transition to the study of Comte's 

 relation to science He repudiates dogmatic atheism and mate- 

 rialism His scale of values in the hierarchy of the sciences 

 Spencer's criticism 



CHAPTER III 



THE APPEAL TO BIOLOGY 



The "social organism" in other writers In Comte Idealist supple- 

 ment to the biological appeal Professor Mackenzie's statement 



