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branching out in some special sociologies, of 

 which criminal sociology , through the work of 

 the Italian school, has become one of the most 

 important results. 



But when we approach the politico-social 

 question, the new science of sociology is 

 detected as if in a sort of hypnotic sleep and 

 is suspended in a sterile colourless limbo, thus 

 permitting sociologists to be in practical 

 economics as in politics, conservatives or 

 radicals according to their fancy, following 

 their subjective tendencies. 



And whilst Darwinian biology, by the 

 scientific determination of the relations of the 

 individual and the species, and evolutionist 

 sociology itself, in describing in human 

 society the organs and functions of a real 

 organism, both treated the individual as a cell 

 in the animal organism, Herbert Spencer 

 affirmed aloud his English individualism even 

 up to the most absolute theoretic anarchy. 



A stagnation in the scientific production of 

 sociology was inevitable after the first original 

 observations of descriptive social anatomy 

 and of the natural history of human societies. 

 Sociology thus represented an arrest of 

 development in experimental scientific thought 

 because those who cultivated it, wittingly or 

 unknown to themselves, drew back from the 

 logical and radical conclusions which the 

 modern scientific revolution must bring into 

 the social domain the most important if 

 science wishes to exist for the sake of life 

 instead of contenting itself with the sterile 

 formula, science for the sake of science, 



