Dynamic Sociology: Or Applied Social Science, as Based Upon Statical Sociology and the Less Complex Sciences, Volume 11920 - Sociology |
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Page 386 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate Man from the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the Gorilla from the lower apes.
Page 177 - Partly by confounding the parentage of the race with a conspicuous object marking the natal region of the race, partly by literal interpretation of birth-names, and partly by literal interpretation of names given in eulogy, there have been produced beliefs in descent from Mountains, from the Sea, from the Dawn, from animals which have become constellations, and from persons once on Earth who now appear as Moon and Sun. Implicitly believing the statements of forefathers...
Page 284 - There seems no alternative but to suppose, that the chemical units combine into units immensely more complex than themselves, complex as they are; and that in each organism, the physiological units produced by this further compounding of highly compound atoms, have a more or less distinctive character. We must conclude that in each case, some slight difference of composition in these units, leading to some slight difference in their mutual play of forces, produces a difference in the form which the...
Page 64 - These are different in different countries and in different ages; but, wherever you are, let it be known that you seriously hold a tabooed belief, and you may be perfectly sure of being treated with a cruelty less brutal but more refined than hunting you like a wolf.
Page 293 - ... an irregular network of matter resembling white of egg, distinguishable by its maintaining its outline and not mixing with the water. This network may be seen gradually altering in form, and entangled granules and foreign bodies change their relative positions. The gelatinous matter is therefore capable of a certain amount of movement, and there can be no doubt that it manifests the phenomena of a very simple form of life.
Page 15 - I assert that all the control that can ever be exerted over mankind nmstj in the future as in the past, emanate from the side of feeling and not of intellect, and promise a mitigation of the hardships of existence, at the same time I unqualifiedly maintain that all the true progress which has in fact taken place in the world has come from the side of intellect and not of feeling.
Page 624 - Labor and production are now also suffering from the same cause. It is high time that all the forces of society were brought into action, and it is especially necessary that those vast complementary forces which woman alone can wield be given free rein, and the whole machinery of society be set into full and harmonious operation» ATTITUDE OF SCIENCE TOWARD THE EQUALIZATION OF WOMAN'S CONDITION.
Page xxviii - ... 1. The law of aggregation, as distinguished from that of evolution proper. 2. The theory of the social forces and the fundamental antithesis which they imply between feeling and function. 3. The contrast between these true social forces and the guiding influence of the intellect, embodying the application of the indirect method of conation, and the essential nature of invention, of art and of dynamic action.
Page 13 - ... taking facts as they are, the existing condition of society is to be ameliorated. All reform which it is hoped to bring about by argument, persuasion, or any of the means available to the philosopher, must hold forth moral rather than intellectual inducements. To succeed, it must follow in the path of all previous efforts of the kind, of the religious systems and the moral schemes of Menu, Zoroaster, Confucius, Jesus, and Mohammed.