LX ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT [eth. ask. 20 



When we examine the subject-matter of any treatise on 

 sociology we usually find it dealing with the laws or institu- 

 tions hy which conduct is governed, and with the attempt to 

 enforce these laws by governmental, moral, customary, cere- 

 monial, and fashionable sanction. I use the term sociology to 

 distinguish one of five coordinate sciences, esthetology, tech- 

 nology, sociology, philology, and sophiology; and I call all 

 of these sciences demonomy. 



I classify the sciences of sociology as statistics, economics, 

 civics, histories, and etJrics, and shall attempt to characterize 

 them for the pur[)Ose only of setting forth their nature. I shall 

 not extend the discussion into a treatise on the sciences of 

 sociology severally, mj purpose being classification only; for 

 the end in view is to exhibit the logical necessity of making a 

 pentalogic classification of all the sciences of demonomy in 

 order that I may set foi'th the nature of qualities and how these 

 qualities are founded on the universal properties of substances, 

 having in view still another purpose, which is to classify and 

 characterize the emotions. Pleasure, welfare, justice, expres- 

 sion, and opinion are concomitant; one can not exist without 

 the other, hence there can be no sociology without esthetology, 

 technology, philology, and sophiology. 



We must now explain why we put sociology third in the 

 order of demotic sciences. In industries we discuss natural 

 forces under the rubric of mechanics, but we discuss only the 

 forces not human — we consider oidy those of the environment 

 of mankind, or those which exist in the air, water, rocks, 

 plants, and the lower animals, and consider how they are 

 developed from natural conditions by devices of control. In 

 sociology we consider human forces exhibited in activities 

 which ultiniately arise through metabolism, so that men con- 

 trol their own actions or conduct in obedience to their judg- 

 ments of good and evil. Thus sociology is the science of the 

 control of human activities, not by mechanical devices as in 

 mechanics, but by institutional devices. As the order of jjrop- 

 erties and qualities has already been established, and motion 

 or force found to l)e third, sociology is consequently third in 

 the demotic sciences. 



