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life on the part of both the capitalist and the operative, 

 and their agreement upon common principles of social 

 action. They must learn that social phenomena are as 

 much the expression of natural laws as any others ; that 

 no social arrangements can be permanent unless they 

 harmonise with the requirements of social statics and 

 dynamics ; and that, in the nature of things, there is an 

 arbiter whose decisions execute themselves. 



But this knowledge is only to be obtained by the 

 application of the methods of investigation adopted in 

 physical researches to the investigation of the phe- 

 nomena of society. Hence, I confess, I should like to see 

 one addition made to the excellent scheme of education 

 propounded for the College, in the shape of provision for 

 the teaching of Sociology. For though we are all agreed 

 that party politics are to have no place in the instruction 

 of the College ; yet in this country, practically governed 

 as it is now by universal suffrage, every man who does 

 his duty must exercise political functions. And, if the 

 evils which are inseparable from the good of political 

 liberty are to be checked, if the perpetual oscillation of 

 nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced 

 by the steady march of self -restraining freedom ; it will 

 be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal 

 with political, as they now deal with scientific questions ; 

 to be as ashamed of undue haste and partisan prejudice 

 in the one case as in the other ; and to believe that the 

 machinery of society is at least as delicate as that of a 

 spinning-jenny, and as little likely to be improved by the 



