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Page 67 - The statical study of sociology consists in the gtaticai 8tu(i investigation of the laws of action and reaction of the different parts of the social system, — apart, for the occasion, from the fundamental movement which is always gradually modifying them.
Page 123 - It is only through the more and more marked influence of the reason over the general conduct of man and of society, that the gradual march of our race has attained that regularity and persevering continuity which distinguish it so radically from the desultory and barren expansion of even the highest animal orders, which share, and with enhanced strength the appetites, the passions, and even the primary sentiments of man.
Page 73 - ... make up the progressive force of the human race, by referring them to that instinct which results from the concurrence of all our natural tendencies, and which urges man to develop the whole of his life, physical, moral, and intellectual, as far as his circumstances allow. But this view is admitted by all enlightened philosophers, so that I may proceed at once to consider the continuous succession of human development regarded in the whole race, as if humanity were one. For clearness we may take...
Page 12 - In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity.
Page 70 - The scientific principle of the relation between the political and the social condition is simply this : that there must always be a spontaneous harmony between the whole and the parts of the social system, the elements of which must inevitably be sooner or later combined in a mode entirely conformable to their nature. It is evident that not only must political institutions and social manners on the one hand, and manners and ideas on the other, be always mutually connected, but, further, that this...
Page 74 - It is easy however to establish, from any point of view, that the successive modifications of society have always taken place in a determinate order, the rational explanation of which is already possible in so many cases that we may confidently hope to recognise it ultimately in all the rest. So remarkable is the steadiness of this order, moreover, that it exhibits an exact parallelism of development among distinct and independent populations, as we shall see when we come to the historical portion...
Page 103 - ... any one love another who did not love himself ? Thus, again, we may be satisfied with the nature of Man, though not with the degree of his self-regards. We must regret that even in the best natures, the social affections are so overborne by the personal, as rarely to command conduct, in a direct way.
Page 68 - ... elements separately, as if they had an independent existence, and it leads us to regard them as in mutual relation and forming a whole, which compels us to treat them in combination. By this method not only are we furnished with the only possible basis for the study of social movement, but we are put in possession. of an important aid to direct observation, since many social elements which cannot be investigated by immediate observation may be estimated by their scientific relation to others...
Page 30 - From the opening of the revolutionary period in the sixteenth century this system of hypocrisy has been more and more elaborated in practice, permitting the emancipation of all minds of a certain bearing, on the tacit condition that they should aid in protracting the submission of the masses. This was eminently the policy of the Jesuits.
Page 107 - Sociology will prove that the equality of the sexes, of which so much is said, is incompatible with all social existence, by showing that each sex has special and permanent functions which it must fulfil in the natural economy of the human family, and which concur in a common end by different ways, the welfare which results being in no degree injured by the necessary subordination, since the happiness of every being depends on the wise development of its proper nature. We have seen...