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HEREDITY AND SELECTION IN SOCIOLOGY 



Applied science harmful in its pro- 

 gress to the biological welfare of 

 the race, 337 

 Artificially preserved life a menace 



to the race, 347 

 Artificial prolongation of life, 341 

 Ascendant variations, limit of, 49 

 Atavism, the phenomenon of, 164 

 Athenian culture and the division 



of labour, 488 

 Athens an example of instability, 

 317, 337 

 extent of its influence on subse- 

 quent ages, 368 



Bagehot, on war as a selective agent, 

 317 

 on human development, 367 

 on traditional progress, 435, 



436 

 on national character, 439 

 on tradition, 445 

 Balance between the rates of multi- 

 plication and elimination, 5 

 Bardoux, Jacques, on the social 

 action of the Church of 

 England, 216 

 on the distribution of wealth, 

 391 

 Basch, Victor, on Liberalism, 461 

 Belief, a social necessity, 234 _^. 

 Bernstein, on the distribution of 



wealth, 388 

 Berthelot, Professor, on science, 

 483 

 believed science to be the 

 supreme guide for social wel- 

 fare, 492 

 BertUlon, statistics on the fertility 



of classes, 325-328 

 Binswanger, on the transmission of 



epilepsy, 71 

 Biogenetic law, 78, 158 

 formulation of, 151 

 Biological fitness, 179 



fitness, determining the superi- 

 ority of savage tribes, 353 

 immortality of the Protozoa, 



423 

 progress, the eugenic progress 



of the race, 309, 311 

 selection, as related to social 

 selection, 313 



Biological superiority of races, 312, 

 313 

 superiority and social stability, 

 312 

 Biologically unfit allowed to thrive 

 at the cost of the fit, 319, 320, 321 

 Biology, limited by selection, 360 

 problems of, of fundamental 

 interest for the sociologist, 

 548 

 Biophors, in the composition of 

 determinants, 29, 33 

 nutrition of, 46 

 Birth-rate varies in inverse ratio to 



material prosperity, 326, 328 

 Bonnet and the theory of preforma- 

 tion, 42 

 Bougie, Professor, and hybrid popu- 

 lations, 128 

 on science as a social force, 

 482 

 Bourdeau, on socialism, 473, 474 

 Bourgeois, Dr., history of the 



family of, 117 

 Bourgeois, Leon, theory of the 



semi-contract, 491 

 Boveri, experiments on the sea- 

 urchin, 18, 23, 29 

 Broadbent, on the removal of tuber- 

 culous children, 348 

 Brown-Sequard, experiments on 

 guinea-pigs, 70, 72 

 on the transmission of epilepsy, 

 168 

 Brunetiere, on the inadequacy of 



science, 509 

 Buddhism, as a social factor com- 

 pared with Christianity, 548 

 "Bushido," the ideal of, 507 



influence of, on Japanese 

 development, 507-8, 510-11 

 Butterflies, slow-flying movement 

 of poisonous species, 84 



Cancer, transmission of, 69, 70 

 Castes, justification of, 171 

 Catholicism, more integrated than 

 Protestanism, 518 

 fundamental sociological im- 

 portance of, 520 

 influence of the Catholic Church 

 during the Middle Ages, 234, 

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