CONTENTS 
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PREFACE: 5) Gs. 45, Du ue Gt te yl ete el Gee, ae ae ix 
PART I 
INTRODUCTION: 404) 8 ad Aes A Me ee wR ee Ke aS 3 
CHAPTER I 
AuGusTE ComTE. Comte’s Positive Philosophy a Prolegomenon to 
Sociology 2.35 Gl ke eee OR adel WA ge te la 12 
CHAPTER II 
HERBERT SPENCER. CosmicEvolution ........... 29 
CHAPTER III 
SoctotocicaL METHODOLOGY: 
L. A. J. Quételet. The Statistical Method. ......... 43 
Paul Von Lilienfeld. The Analogical Method. ........ 47 
Guillaume De Greef. Classification as a Method of Sociological 
Knowledge. a: ee eg we a Rw A we OS 49 
PART II 
PASSIVE PHYSICAL AND PHYSIO-SOCIAL ADAPTATION 
CHAPTER IV 
BIOLoGIcAL EvoLurTION: 
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. Use-Inheritance. ... .... 56 
Charles Darwin. Natural Selection. ‘ oy oes. C58 
August Weismann. Continuity of the Germ-Plasm ...... 68 
Hugo de Vries. Mutations . ee ee ee ee rc 
Johann Gregor Mendel. Independent Unit Characters. ... 71 
CHAPTER V 
NeEo-DARWINIAN 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 
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