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CONTENTS. 



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lation can be studied apart. 

 Political Economy characterised 587 



4. Political Ethology, or the science 



of National Character , . . . 590 



5. The Empirical Laws of the Social 



Science . . 592 



6. The Verification of the Social 



Science 593 



Chapter X. 



Oj the Inverse Deductive, or His- 

 torical Method. 



1. Distinction between the general 



Science of Society and special 

 Sociological inquiries . . . . 594 



2. What is meant by a State of 



Society? 595 



3. The Progressiveness of Man and 



Society 595 



4. The laws of the succession of states 



of Society can only be ascei-- 

 tained by the Inverse Deductive 

 Method 597 



5. Social Statics, or the science of the 



Co-existences of Social Pheno- 

 mena .. 598 



6. Social Dynamics, or the science of 



the Successions of Social Pheno- 

 mena . . 603 



7. Outlines of the Historical Method 604 



8. Fiiture prospects of Sociological 



Inquiry .. 605 



Chapter XL 



Additional Elucidations of the Science 

 of History. 



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1. The subjection of historical facts 



to tuiiform laws is verified by 

 statistics 607 



2. — does not imply the insignifi- 



cance of moral causes . . . . 6og 



3. — nor the inefficacy of the charac- 



ters of individuals and of the 

 acts of governments .. .. 611 



4. The historical importance of emi- 



nent men and of the policy of 

 governments illustrated . . . . 613 



Chapter XII. 



Of the Logic of Practice, or Art ; in- 

 cluding Morality and Policy. 



1. Morality not a science, but an Art 616 



2. Relation between rules of Art and 



the theorems of the correspond- 

 ing science 616 



3. Wliat is the proper function of 



rules of Art? 617 



4. Art cannot be Deductive . . . . 618 



5. Every Art consists of truths of 



Science, arranged in the order 

 suitable for some practical use . . 619 



6. Teleology, or the doctrine of Ends 619 



7. Necessity of an ultimate standard, 



or first principle of Teleology . . 620 



8. Conclusion 622 



