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Excerpt from Of Social Life
In an early essay I remarked that there was no definite science of society beyond that contained in such specific studies as economics and politics. That view I now believe to be wholly mistaken, and I hope that this present volume adds one to the many disproofs of it revealed by the recent progress of the subject. There was some excuse for the contrary opinion, for many a vain and specious formula has been set forward in the name of sociology, many a hollow generalisation has been declared an eternal social law, and too frequently the invention of terms has taken the place of the discovery of principles. But the stars fulfilled their courses unmoved by the imaginations of astrologers, and community works out social law despite the errors of us who profess to study it. Community is not only a real, it is a vital subject of study.
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