Married life, healthfulness of, 84; cir cumstances which determine, 85-87. Master-builder, 25. Mathematics, 202; discipline given by, Matthew Arnold's method, 197-200; statements of, 199-210.
rleehanics, 48.
dental science, truth taught by, 335.
Mercantile marine, inspection of, 3.
Meteorology, 35.
Mind, laws of, 324, 326; true theory Mod inability of species, 299; of man, 300, 300-308; of all organic beings, Moral code, operativeness of, 279, 280.
nature, effects of war on, 179. — teaching, effect of, 332-335.
Mordaunt cases, 254.
Mortality, 309; of children, 199; statis tics of, 199; rate of, 311, 312; de crease in the causes of, 312.
Murders, committed in England, 198; by foreigners, 198, 199.
" Must-do-something" impulse, 18, 19; result of deficient knowledge, 19.
Mutual dependence, of parts, 303, 304; of sociology and biology, 305.
Napoleon, his despotism, 142, 143. Nature of the aggregate determined by the nature of the units, 43-48; objection to this theory, 48. Naval and Military Bible Society, 131. Nonconformists, judgment warped by theological bias, 273. Nonconformity, 216. Non-restraint system, 12.
O Observations, systematic, 320.
Old beliefs, reaction from, 275, 276.
Optical illusions, 83.
Organization, regulative, 363; mutual dependence of parts necessary to, Parable of the sower, application of, Parenthood, mental influence of, 338. Parliament, acts of, 263; member of, Patriotism, 185, 186; effects on beliefs, 187, 188; leads to a low estimate of THE STUDY OP SOCIOLOGY.
other peoples, 188, 189, 193; effects on sociological judgments, 196, 354.
Personal equation, 9.
interests, 75.
Phenomena, 357; interpretation of, 358.
Philanthropy, a means of evil, 314.
Policy, 319, 320; conducive to improve Political bias, 239; perverting effects of, 240; subtle form of, 255; op posed to sociological conceptions, economy, 136, 137; flaws in, 138; laws of, 138.
Poor-laws, examples of. 93, 94. Positive philosophy, faith pervading, Positivism, 105.
Power, manifestation of, 344; rever ence for, 347; its influence on po litical beliefs, 144.
Preglacial period, 126.
Press. 112.
Prevision, 34; scientific, 34; of social phenomena, 41; impossible, 50; Proaromut Florte Xor<r-Ho!lan(U<t, 207.
Progress in chemistry, 204, 205; in mathematics, 202; in physics, 203; in astronomy, 205; in geology, 206; in biology, 207; in psychology, 208; in ethics,' 208.
Properties of aggregates determined by properties of its units, 53, 111.
Protestantism, 272.
Proximate causes, 2.
Psychological inquiries, need for, 340; analysis, 343.
Psychology, 208; preparation in, 324. Public affairs, better management of, 255; conversation concerning, 256- Quaternions, 202; value of, 6.
R Radicalism, 364. Reign of Terror, 140, 144. Religion, of amity. 270, 271; of enmity, Religions, 161; antagonistic, 162-164; conflict between, 165. Religious conceptions, 123-126. — sentiment, development of, 282, Representative faculty, 346. Results proportional to appliances, 241; fallacy that, 242-255. Revolution. French, 139-141, 143. Rhone Hydraulic Company, 200. Ribot, extract from, 208. Roman Catholicism, 272.
S Sacrifices, human, 96.
Sandwich-Islanders, friendly conduct Sanitary arrangements, 3.
Savages, as described by various writ ers, 26(3; morality of, 207; bar barity of, 191; kind treatment by, Science of life, related to the science of society. 299; importance of study Sciences, abstract, 202; abstract-con crete. 203.
Scurvy, 147.
Self-control, 338.
— depreciation, origin of, 197.
— regard, evils resulting from, 186, — sacrifice, 162; untenability of the doctrine of, K55.
Sexes, mental differences, 340-346.
Shakspeare, 31.
Slave-trade, 321.
Social actions, complexity of, 16, 17.
— phenomena, relations of, 4; should be studied in conformity with meth ods employed in physical research, 5; false method of investigating, 10; prevision in, 18; ascertainable order of, 21; no absolute repetition of, '35; explanations of, 48; two modes of interpreting, 87; per verted conceptions of, 181; origin in the phenomena of individual human nature, 299; factors in volved in, 340, 347; imperviousness science, ideas alien to, 26-33; de nial of, 33: positions taken by Mr. Froude regarding. 33; free-will in compatible with, 33; denial of a, 37; recognition of, 39; reply to criticisms concerning, 39, 40; na ture of, 52, 53; definite conception of, 53; value of the study of, 63, 64; difficulties of the, 65-67, 352; right thinking in, 181; political partizanship in the way of, 239; balanced judgments in, 285; men tal science necessary to, 349; con clusion regarding, 350; conception developed by, 364.
Social structures, development of, 54- Society, multiplicity of factors in volved, 14, 15; structure and growth as related in, 56-62; its physical quality lowered, 311-313; its intellectual and moral qualities lowered, 313-316; type modified, Sociology, necessity for the study of, 1-21; hindered by sentiments of loyalty, 157; class-bias opposed to right thinking in, 237; political bias opposed to, 264; a fit habit of thought important to the study of, 288; its dependence on biology, Solar spots, constitution of sun implied INDEX.
by, 6-8; Wilson's hypothesis re garding, 6; counter-hypothesis, 7; Kirchhoff 's hypothesis, 7; hypothe sis, reconciling facts, 8.
State agency, 147-157; confidence in, 154; education through, 329.
Statutes, penal, 149.
Stone age, 175.
Strategy of Providence, 25.
Structure and growth, 56-59; law in social organisms of, 59, CO.
Subjective difficulties, intellectual, 103- Sun's distance, error in estimating, 187.
Supernatural genesis of phenomena, Superstitions, 5.
Survivals, of the fittest, 174, 175; of primitive practices, 97-101.
Svnt IK-SIS, practice of, 293.
Syphilis, 76-82.
T Tailor in heaven, story of, 125.
Tasmanian devil, 168, 170.
Temperance societies, growth of, 70; results of, 246.
Tendency, destructive and construc Testimony, necessity for discounting, 71; personal interests affecting, 74; political influences affecting, 75.
Theological bias, leading to misinter pretation of social facts, 266; effect of, 270; obscures sociological truth, 271; leads to erroneous estimates of societies and institutions, 271, Theory of Mr. Gladstone, 358.
Theory of light, 203.
Titles, 159.
Trade-unions, genesis of, 119; ideas of legislative action entertained by, 157; internal governments of, 224. 225; general policy of. 229.
Transitional periods, 362.
Truth, taught by mental science 335 U United States, truth displayed in, 251.
Untrustworthy evidence, the result of, subjective states of the witnesses, 69-74, 352; of personal interest, 74- 82; of confounding observation with inference, 84-90; distribution in space, 90, 91; distribution of facts in time, 92-101.
Vagrancy act, 36. Veracity, habitual, 107.
W Wallace, contradictory estimates of the character of, 188.
Walter-press, genesis of, 115-119.
War, the means of consolidation, 176; of industrial habits, 177; of retro gression, 178; its effects on the moral nature, 179; general effects Women, mental characteristics of, 340; physical peculiarities of, 341; traits of intellect and feeling peculiar to, Spencer, Herbert The study of sociology B