mathematics, 52; in physics, 53; in astronomy, 77; in geology, 110; in biology, 115; in psychology, 172; in ethies, 173.
Properties of aggregates determined by
properties of its units, 10, 71. Protestantism, 136. Proximate causes, 6. —— results, 6, 22. Psychological inquiries, need for, 308;
analysis, 503. Psychology, 47; preparation in, 53. Psychology, 208; preparation in, 324. Public affairs, better management of, 6;
conversation concerning, 114-120.
Q
Quaternions, 202; value of, 9.
R
Radicalism, 316.
Reign of Terror, 49, 136.
Religion, of amity, 183, 184; of enmity, 183, 184; of humanity, 215.
Religions, 248; antagonistic, 249-251; conflict between, 269.
Religious conception, 18-21.
—— sentiment, development of, 40, 114.
Representative faculty, 120.
Results proportional to appliances,
6; fallacy that, 14-17.
Revolution, French, 38-40, 166.
Rhone Hydraulic Company, 300.
Ribot, extract from, 308.
Roman Catholicism, 135.
S
Sacrifices, human, 121.Samoans, 413, 414. Sandwich-Islanders, friendly conduct of,
291. Sanitary arrangements, 6. Savages, as described by various writers,
41; morality of, 80; barbarity of, 160; kind treatment by 181. Science of life, related to the science of society, 9; importance of study of, 10,
12. Sciences, abstract, 49, abstract- concrete,
74. Scurvy, 217. Self-control, 81. —— depreciation, origin of, 123. —— regard, evils resulting from, 124,
228.
—— sacrifice, 514; untenability of the doctrine of, 516.
Sexes, mental differences, 111-117
.
Shakspeare, 45.
Slave-trade, 484.
Small-pox epidemic, 75.
Social actions, complexity of, 5, 6.
—— phenomena, relations of, 7; should be studied in conformity with methods employed in physical research, 8; false method of investigating, 9; prevision in, 10; ascertainable order of, 13; no absolute repetition of, 550; explanations of 14; two modes of interpreting, 15; perverted conceptions of, 16; origin in the phenomena of individual human nature, 19; factors involved in, 20, 21; imperviousness to, 24.
—— science, ideas alien to, 24-31; denial of, 40; positions taken by Mr. Froude regarding, 42; free-will incompatible with, 42; denial of a, 43; recognition of, 44; reply to criticisms concerning, 344, 45; nature of, 46, 47; definite conception of, 48; value of the study of, 49, 50; difficulties of them 52-54, 71; right thinking in, 73; political partisanship in the way of, 74; balances judgments in, 78; mental science necessary to, 80; conclusion regarding, 87; conception developed by, 88.
Social structures, development of, 82-84.
Society, multiplicity of factors involved, 6, 8; structure and growth as related in, 9-15; its physical quality lowered, 14-16; its intellectual and moral qualities lowered, 17-20; type modified, 21.
Sociology, necessity for the study of, 22-42; hindered by sentiments of loyalty, 49; class-bias opposed to right thinking in, 53; political bias opposed to, 74; a fit habit of thought important to the study of, 77 its dependence on biology, 296, 299; difficulties of, 80.
Solar spots, constitution of sun implied by, 10-12; Wilson’s hypothesis regarding, 43; counter-hypothesis, 208; Kirchhoff’s hypothesis, 429; hypothesis, reconciling facts, 545.
Spartans, 258, 265.
State agency, 5-15; confidence in, 19; education through, 20.
Statutes, penal, 220.
Stone age, 222.
Strategy of Providence, 39.
Structure and growth, 44-47; law in social organisms of, 46, 69.
Subjective difficulties, intellectual, 110-139, 159; emotional, 162-189,
186. Sun’s distance, error in estimating, 11. Supernatural genesis of phenomena,
36-38.
Superstitions, 104.
Survivals, of the fittest, 260, 175; of
primitive practices, 97-101.
Synthesis, practice of, 451. Syphillis, 76-82.
T
Tailor in heaven, story of, 180.
Tasmanian devil, 255 256.
Temperance societies, growth of, 109; results of, 115.
Tendency, destructive and constructive,
22.
Testimony, necessity for discounting, 111; personal interests affecting, 117; political influences affecting, 119.
Theological bias, leading to misinter-pretation of social facts, 266; effect of, 180; obscures sociological truth, 181; leads to erroneous estimates of societies and institutions, 230, 250.
Theory of Mr. Gladstone, 36.
Theory of light, 253.
Titles, 215.
Trade-unions, genesis of, 175; ideas of legislative action entertained by, 157; internal governments of, 224, 225; general policy of, 229.
Transitional periods, 249. Trinity, 180, Truth, taught by mental science, 13. Two-headed nightingale, 107.
U
United States, truth displayed in, 113.
Untrustworthy evidence, the result of, subjective states of the witnesses, 129-134 352; of personal interest, 74-82; of confounding observation with inference, 84-90; distribution in space, 90, 91; distribution of facts in time, 92-101.
V
Vagrancy act, 49. Veracity, habitual, 162.
W
Wallace, contradictory estimates of the character of, 289.
Walter-press, genesis of, 170-174.
, the means of consolidation, 20; of industrial habits, 38; of retrogression, 39; its effects on the moral nature, 46; general effects of, 74.
Women, mental characteristics of, 42; physical peculiarities of, 116; traits of intellect and feeling peculiar to, 119-121.