CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface ix 



PART I 



Introduction 3 



CHAPTER I 



Auguste Comte. Comte's Positive Philosophy a Prolegomenon to 



Sociology 12 



CHAPTER II 

 Herbert Spencer. Cosmic Evolution 20 



CHAPTER III 

 Sociological Methodology: 



L. A. J. Quetelet. The Statistical Method 43 



Paul Von Lilienfeld. The Analogical Method ... . . 47 



Guillaume De Greef. Classification as a Method of Sociological 



Knowledge 40, 



PART II 



PASSIVE PHYSICAL AND PHYSIO-SOCIAL ADAPTATION 



CHAPTER IV 



Biological Evolution: 



Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. Use-Inheritance 56 



Charles Darwin. Natural Selection . 58 



August Weismann. Continuity of the Germ-Plasm 68 



Hugo de Vries. Mutations 70 



Johann Gregor Mendel. Independent Unit Characters . ... 71 



CHAPTER V 



Neo-Darwtnian Sociologists: 



Friedrich Nietzsche. Evolution of the Super-Man 80 



Benjamin Kidd. Religion and Social Progress 85 



Galton and Pearson. National Eugenics 92 



Vacher de Lapouge. Societal Selections 99 



