Study of Sociology and the Quest for Social Science
The article reviews Herbert Spencer's Study of Sociology as a stepping stone to a fuller social science. It discusses the feasibility of universal laws in human relations, the tension between divine providence and natural causes, and the need for careful methods, bias awareness, and qualitative rather than quantitative results.
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Herbert Spencer
Mr. Spencer
Contemporary Review
American Popular Social Monthly
Canon Kingsley
Teutons
Spencer
Quote on humanity as a fleeting product of power
A fragmentary line describes humanity as a small fugitive product and a power in constant flux, existing before humanity and persisting in other forms after humanity ceases to be. It frames human existence as temporary in a broad historical continuity.
The Great Ice Age and its Relations to Man’s Antiquity
James Geikie surveys glacial theory and geology in Scotland, arguing for a continuous earth history with multiple ice advances. He challenges Lyell’s climate-change explanations, proposing a glacial sequence fit by till, striations, and mapped strata, shaping views on man’s antiquity.
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Geikie
Charles Lyell
Gulf Stream
Geological Survey of Scotland
Agassiz
British Isles
Euro E
America
Hemisphere
Scotland
James Grikiz
F.rs.e
F.G
N.M
Lisbister and Co