Sociology: The Science of Human Society, 2 tomas

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1903

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247 psl. - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
247 psl. - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
247 psl. - ... the gladiatorial theory of existence. It demands that each man who enters into the enjoyment of the advantages of a polity shall be mindful of his debt to those who have laboriously constructed it ; and shall take heed that no act of his weakens the fabric in which he has been permitted to live. Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process and reminding the individual of his duty to the community, to the protection and influence of which he owes, if not existence...
33 psl. - It gave for the organic series : first, the gens, a body of consanguinei having a common gentile name ; second, the phratry, an assemblage of related gentes united in a higher association for certain common objects ; third, the tribe, an assemblage of gentes, usually organized in phratries, all the members of which spoke the same dialect ; and fourth, a confederacy of tribes, the members of which respectively spoke dialects of the same stock language. It resulted in a gentile society (societas) as...
70 psl. - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said. Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
166 psl. - Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864.
206 psl. - When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite selfsufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the nature of a thing is its end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family.
166 psl. - Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions; xx.
110 psl. - ... without some species of writing no people has ever preserved the faithful annals of their history, ever made any considerable progress in the abstract sciences, or ever possessed, in any tolerable degree of perfection, the useful and agreeable arts of life.
44 psl. - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation...

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