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  1. Introduction
  2. Preface to the First Edition
  3. Preface to the Second Edition
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter I.—Universal Repetition
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
  6. Chapter II.—Social Resemblances and Imitation
    1. I
    2. II
  7. Chapter III.—What is a Society?
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  8. Chapter IV.—What is History? Archæology and Statistics
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
  9. Chapter V.—The Logical Laws of Imitation
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. Other considerations
  10. Chapter VI.—Extra-Logical Influences
    1. I
    2. II
  11. Chapter VII.—Extra-Logical Influences (Continued)—Custom and Fashion
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
  12. Chapter VIII.—Remarks and Corollaries
    1. I
    2. II
  13. Notes
  14. Index

INDEX

A

Accent, spread of, 217

Adaptation to environment, explanation of living or social types not found in their, 141

Adoption, fiction of, 53, 250, 315, 352-3, 365

Agriculture

its rivalry with commerce, 289

its progress dependent upon uniformity of law, 321-2

its failure to progress under feudalism, 335

Alcoholism

explanation of spread of, 194, 195

spread of, from superior to inferior, 231n.1

Amber, its importation in antiquity, 96, 330

Ammonite, 25n.1

Ancestor-worship, 53, 267sq., 275

Animals

invention among, 3, 4

imitation among, 3, 4n.1, 67n.1, 198n.1, 206

domestication of, 17, 42n.2, 46, 219n.2, 235, 236, 274n.1, 276-80, 330n.1

relation of primitive man to wild, 271-8, 372n.1

deification of, 274-8

human speech understood by, 331n.2

Animal societies 4, 59, 60

of La Fontaine’s fables, 67

Anthropology, distinction between archæology and, 89sq.

Archæology

methods of, 89sq.

proof in, of preponderance of imitation over invention, 98

principle of imitation in, 98sq.

the paleontology of society, 103

comparison between Statistics and, ib.

branches of, 107

erroneous deduction about primitive man in, 325

Architecture

transmission of Roman, 9

resemblances between Old and New World, 39n.1

imitation in, 54

development of Greek and Egyptian, 54sq.

analogies in, 56-7

logical conflicts in, 161, 162

repetition of types in, 191

invention of, 235

climate not an adequate explanation of style in, 326

in times of fashion, 335

in the 19th century, 344

d’Argenson, 218n.1

Aristocracy

initiative character of, 221

influence of theocratic, 223

of cities, 228

the cause of democracy, 231

racial intermixture, characteristic of, 238n.1

speech of the, 257

Tocqueville’s distinction between democracy and, 303

the relation of militancy to, 305n.1

assimilation of usages in the, 335

the future of, 388

Art

laws of refraction in, 23

differentiation in, 55

analysis of Arabian, Greek, Egyptian, 99

logical conflicts in, 159

interplay of fashion and custom in, 164

the ideal the substance of, 182, conventionality of, 191

evolution of, 207

survivals in, 209

degeneration of, 210, animal drawings, first attempts in, 274n.1

transition from fashion to custom in, 298

relation of evolution of, to industry, 303n.1

during periods of custom and of fashion, 342, 346-55

religious origin of, 345

its origin in handicraft, 353

Assimilation

of modern civilisations, xxiii., 16, 388-9

of civilisations through imitation, 21, 128

social, point of departure for social advance, 72

produced through cities, 228

due to language, 264

international political, 290

due to mediæval preaching friars, 338

Astronomy

accumulable discoveries in, 174

modern, reducible to a single formula, 178

discovery of, 235

Atomism, 178

B

Babeau, Albert, 293n.2, 299, 372n.2, 385n.2

Baldwin, 75n.1

Barante, de. 217

Barth, 152n.1, 222n.1

Baudrillart, 49, 217, 218

Beaunis 76

Belief

transmission of, a fundamental social relation, xvi.

a social force, 145sq.

the final object of desire, 147

lowering of plane of, 172n.1

credulity, imitation of, 197

Beliefs

interferences between, 24sq.

expressed by statistics, 104-7

their relations to invention, 109

tendency to geometric progression of, 115

three phases of, 126sq.

conflict between, 149sq.

spread of, 210

Bentham, iii.

Bergson, 145n.1

Bernard, Claude, 12

Bernhelm, 76

Bertillon, 111

Binet, 76

Biology

less advanced than sociology, 13

statistics of, 110-11.

Bodin, 199n.2

Bopp, 260n.1

Bordier, 239

Bourdeau, 42n.2, 46, 219n.2

Boutmy, 168n.1, 289n.1

Broca, 328n.1

Bronze

spread of art of working, 17

same transition in America and Europe from age of stone to age of, 39n.1

unknown inventor of, 91

uniform composition of prehistoric, 329-30

imitation of flint implements in, 364

Brunetière, 357n.1

Buckle, 269, 346n.1, 357

Burckhardt, 134n.1, 191, 219n.1, 293, 363

Burgess, 306n.1

C

Candolle, de, 100

Cannibalism

a fashion, 127

explanation of, 273

not typical of primitlve society, 348

Ceremonial government, increase of, 61n.1, 192n.2, 211n.1

Chipiez, 57n.1

Cibrano, 334n.2

Circumcision, among Aztecs and Hebrews, 41n.1

Cities

increase in populations of, 104-5

the modern aristocracies, 226-9

cause of social superiority, 236

intensity of imitation in, 239

fashion-imitation in, 248, 288

of refuge, 288

uniformity of laws in German, 314

Civilisation

causes racial differentiation, xxi, 239, 252

types of, 69

causes of set-backs in 163n.1

defined, 180, 390n.1

American race the outcome of European, 239

formula of development of every, 254

relation of religion to, 279sq.

See Assimilation.

Civilisations

imitation between, 48

independence of different, 53

decomposition of, in archæology, 99

Colins, 153n.1

Commune

origin of, 227

spread of charter of, 313

Communication

in prehistoric periods, 47

essential to imitation, 115, 370

originally one-sided, 205-6, 371

between French and English courts, 229

amount of, necessary for imitation, 292n.1

its relation to democracy, 307-8

effects of, 392n.1

Comte, Auguste, iv., xi., 285n.1, 303n.1, 344, 381

Condorcet, xxiii.

Confession, rite of, among Aztecs and Catholics, 41n.1

Coulanges, Fustel de, 228n.1, 239 242, 288

Cournot, iii., xi., 260n.1, 380, 381

Courtesy

origin of, 217, 223

transition from unilateral to reciprocal in, 372, 377-9.

Couvade, 209

Crime

imitation in, iv.

Tarde on problems of, v

statistics of, 104, 114

classification of, 113, 119-20

effect of marriage upon, 117

widespread publication of, 345

Cross, widespread use of, 47n.1

Curtius, 144n.1, 291, 299, 300, 322

Custom

interplay of fashion and, 164

its relation to reproduction, 253-4

effects of transition from, to fashion and from fashion to custom in language, 255-65

in religion, 265-86

in government, 287-309

in legislation, 310-22

in usages, 322-33

in industry, 333-44

in art and morality, 344-65

paternal prestige the source of, 276

relation of price to, 339-40

empire of, in language, 344

See Custom-Imitation under Imitation.

D

Darmesteter, 266n.1

Darwin, xvii., 12, 17, 37, 67n.1, 370, 382

Death

necessity of, 7

a justification of pessimism, 266n.1

Delahante, 119n.1, 129n.1

Delbœuf, 7, 76

Democracy

tyranny of the many during, 84

imitation during, 225

Tocqueville’s distinction between aristocracy and, 303, 387

increasing resemblances do not necessitate, 388

Desire

transmission of, a fundamental social relation, xvi

growth of, to invent, 43

specific character of, 44, 93

for a maximum of belief, 50

a social force, 145

for reason, 149,

docility, imitation of, 197

for equality, 303

Desires

interferences between, 24sq.

expressed by statistics, 104-7

their relation to invention, 109, 159

tendency of, towards geometric progression, 115, 124

for fraternity, 112, 121sq., 266

competition of, 115

for truth, 125

for property, 125-6

three phases of, 126sq.,

increase of, in civilisation, 148n.1

conflict between, 149sq.

spread of, 210

satisfaction of, by industry, 322

of consumption spread more rapidly than corresponding desires of production, 329sq.

Diabolical possession, 50-1.

Discovery

of gallium, 12

the successful, of the present determines that of the future, 19

of Cicero’s Republic, 34

of the steamboat, 44

of the circulation of the blood, 44, 170

of mineral springs in France, 92n.1

of tea, coffee, tobacco, 93

for the pleasure of discovery, 94

of beet sugar, 104

of fire from friction, 235, 270n.1

See Invention.

Division of labor

among animals, 60, 61sq.

original lack of, 327

Dostoïesky, 207n.1, 246n.1

Dubois-Reymond, 125

E

Eagle, two-headed, spread of, through imitation, 47n.1

Ellis, Havelock, v.

Emission theory, 48

English language

illustration of linguistic refraction in, 22

vowel differentiation in, 143

spread of, 257, 331

grammatical simplification in, 265

Envy

the effect of obedience, 201

assimilation produced by, 202n.1

Erigeron, spread of the, 17

Eructation, as an act of courtesy, 42n.1

Espinas, xvii., 3, 4n.1, 59n.1

F

Family

the nation developed from the, xxii.

spread of, dialects, 17, 255, 287

relation between imitation and docility and credulity shown in the, 199

the patriarchal, 202-4, 267n.1

imitation in the primitive, 250, 269

the, not the unique source of society, 268

religion cradled in the, 280, 287

the, the original social group, 287

origin of and art in the morality 314-15, 345

industry in the, 328

undermining of the, 358

See Adoption.

Fashion

progress of, in European societies, 16

in crimes. 113

interplay of custom and, 164

in dress, 199, 212, 334n.2, 385

contemporaneous prestige, the source of, 276

parliamentarism a, 293

sixteenth and eighteenth centuries periods of, 293n.2

the secret ballot a, ib.

spread of municipal law through, 314

jury system a, 317

trial by torture a, ib.

birth of political economy during ages of, 320

increase of rationality through, 321

tobacco-chewing a, 327

naval, in America, 334

unchanging, of monastic dress, 334n.1, 383-4

in eating, 336n.2, 340

relation of price to, 339

its relation to individualism and naturalism, 341-2

its relation to invention, 343

the assumption by, of the mask of custom, 361sq.

Latin poetry a, 362

Roman jurisprudence a, ib.

See Custom

See Fashion-Imitation under Imitation.

Féré, 76

Feudalism

assimilation of, 62-3

formation of, 73, 239-43

persistence of titles of, 152n.1

a harmonising factor, 186

opposition of communes to, 226

failure of agriculture to progress under, 335

a stage in the transition from unilateral to reciprocal authority, 374

disappearance of, 380

Friday, superstition about, 106n.1

Friedlander, 257n.1

G

Garnier, 42n.1

Gaudry, 25n.1

Generation. See Reproduction.

Gerontocracy, influence of, in primitive societies, 268

Giard, 383n.1

Gide, 388

Glasson, 240, 241

Gobineau, de, xxii.

Goblet d’Alviella, 47n.1, 274n.1

Government

originally an answer to a demand for security. 174

distinction between additions and substitutions in, 180

a political idea, 182

etiquette of, 191

language, an instrument of, 206

conservatism and liberalism in, 288

compared with religion, 239n.1

in times of fashion, 342

relation of art and morality to, 345

See Ceremonial Government.

Grimm, 22, 260n.1

Guibert, Louis, 186n.1

Guyau, 332

H

Haeckel, 12, 370

Heredity

inaccurate use of term, xv.

its relation to imitation, xxi.-xxii., 25n.1, 280, 328, 357, 368

organic progress dependent upon, 7

analogous to imitation and vibration, 11

during custom-imitation, 36

first repetition in, 43

idea of, combined with that of variability, 382

Hesitation, opposed to imitation, 165

Historic method, excellence of, 14

History

interpretation of, 3, 109

methods of, 8-10, 101

continuity of, 12

action of imitation the first principle of, 49

relation of archæology to, 90, 102

as commonly understood, 92

definition of, 139

a tissue of tragedy and comedy, 172

the reversible and irreversible in, 379sq.

Horse

its disappearance from American fauna 46

superseded as a means of locomotion, 158

introduced into Egypt, 214

advantage of the, in war, 236

primitive possessors of the, 277n.1

Houzeau, 331n.2

Hugo, Victor, 98, 226, 352

Hugonnet, 42n.1

Hypnotism, compared to social phenomena, 76sq., 199n.1, 204, 275n.2

I

Idealism

its relation to materialism, xviii.

in sociology, 2, 3, 177

Ideas

geometrical progression of, 18, 115

constituting a social type, 68

imitation of, precedes imitation of their expression, 207

spread more easily than usages, 323n.1

Imitation

meaning of term, xiii-xiv.

of self, xiv.n.1, 75, 88, 115n.1

counter-, xvii-xix.

non-, xix-xx.

Custom-

its path prepared by non-imitation of foreign models, xix.

influence of heredity during, 36

predominance of, over fashion-imitation, 52n.1, 244sq.

in England, 289n.1

Fashion-

its path prepared by non-imitation of anterior models xix, 192, 221n.1, 231

compared with custom-imitation, 244

in France, 289n.1

in the formation of the United States, 296

individualistic 320

use of flint spread by, 325

characteristics of periods of, 328n.1

contemporaneous, 357

assimilation of, 369

in Japan, xx, 216n.1, 254n.1

progress a necessary outcome of the laws of, xxiii.

its relation to invention, 3

analogous to vibration and heredity, 7, 70-1, 189-90, 211-12, 386

its relation to historic facts, 12

the cause of all social resemblances, 14, 37

linguistic, 15, 17

rôle of, in Statistics and political economy, 16

of Columbus, 20

of Greco-Roman civilisation, 21

its relation to vibration and heredity one-sided, 34

suppression of embryonic phases in, 35-6

not dependent upon direct contact, 48

spreads through education, 62

of Louis XIV., 64

its influence upon instinct, 67n.1

biological, 75n.1

psychological, ib.

mutual, 79

relation of respect to, 87

a kind of somnambulism, ib.

of turning movement at Ulm, 91n.1

effect of laws upon, 94n.1

of Greece by Etruria, 98

its relation to sociological statistics, 111

effect of, upon public expenditure, 119

in the nineteenth century, 151

modes of, 189sq.

spread of physiological activities through, 194-6

correlation between credulity, docility, and, 197sq.

subjective and objective 197sq., 301

of the superior by the inferior, 213sq., 368, 369

of the inferior by the superior, 215

of the foreigner, 221, 247sq., 266n.1, 269-70, 337, 340n.2

of the nearest, 224

under democracy, 225

in cities, 228

in preaching, 229n.1

mutualised and specialised, 232-3

emancipated from heredity, 280

of English parhamentarism, 293

of Greece, 301

Tocqueville’s contribution to theory of, 309n.1

of jurisprudence of Paris, 312

from within out, 323n.1, 332sq.

professional, 328n.1

among the Persians, 334n.2

sumptuary laws a check upon, 337n.1

Roman plebs assimilated to patricians through, 348n.1

in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, 351-2

its tendency towards indefinite progression, 366

rapid spread of commercial, 370-1

transition of unilateral into reciprocal, 371sq.

See Animals.

Imitations

geometrical progression of, 20

modification of, 22

interferences between, 23sq.

control of, by statistics, 111

career of, the exclusive interest of history, 139

order of, distinct from that of inventions, 381

Individualism

promoted through widespread imitation, xxiv.,

in sociology, 2

a special kind of realism, 7

in Greece, 301

relation of fashion to, 341, 357n.1

Indo-European languages

identity of roots of, 8

common progenitor of, 15, 103

vowel softening and verbal differentiation in, 143

Industry

logical conflicts in, 157-8

interplay of fashion and custom in, 164

accumulated inventions in, 174, 180-1

substitution of ends in, 179

morality the end of, 182

progress of modern, 184

relation of evolution of, to art, 303n.1

its progress dependent upon uniformity of law, 321-2

its progress dependent upon spread of same wants and tastes, 333

effects of transition from custom to fashion, and from fashion to custom, upon, 333sq.

transition from the unilateral to the reciprocal in, 375

Intimidation, social meaning of, 85

Invention

meaning of the term, xiv-xv.

distinct from counter-imitation, xviii.-xix.

its relation to imitation, 3, of printing, 5, 22, 153, 364

of gunpowder, 11, 22, 171

of the Morse telegraph, 11, 51, 93

of the mill, 11, 152, 171, 235, 376

of railroads, 11n.1, 131

theory of, in Logique soctale, 13n.1

tendency of every, to expand, 17

every, an answer to a problem, 45

of steam engines, 104

of marriage, 111, 117

exhaustion of, 138

of oil painting, 160

logical duels of society ended through, 170-2

of the telescope, 171

of the cart, ib.

of bows and arrows, 235

of bone needles, ib.

of feudal royalty, 292

of means of fishing, 326n.1

its relation to fashion, 343

one form of the interference of repetitions, 382

See Animals.

Inventions

definition of, 2

tendency of, to expand, 17

interference of, 20n.1

composed of prior imitations, 45

non-imitable, 91-2

relation of history to, 92

causes of social necessities, 93

history of, given by archæology, 100

progress of, 127, 250

interference of, 129

general classification of, 149

accumulable, 154, 173sq.

conflicts between, 154sq.

substitution of, 162sq.

of science, 177, 376

their relation to social superiority, 234sq.

cosmogonies representative of series of, 270n.1

imitative nature of, 344

in morals, 346-7

in art, 347

in law, 376

their order distinct from that of imitation, 381

relating to weaving 384

J

Jametel, 42n.1

Jannet, Claudio, 306n.1

Jansenn, 197, 219n.1

Jusserand, 336n.1, 337

K

King-gods

as initiators, 81

loved as well as feared, 202-3.

L

La Bruyère, 229n.1, 378

La Fontaine, 67, 241

Lake-dwellings, of Switzerland and New Guinea, 47

Lang, 275

Language

transmission of Coptic, 8

the great vehicle of imitations, 15

spread of, 17, 255sq., 331

refracticn in, 22-3

resemblances in, 40-1

origin of, 42, 204-5

physical causes in, 140

rôle of analogy in, 142

imitation and invention in, 142sq.

irreversibility in, 143, 385

conflicts in, 154-5

substitutions in, 163

duels in, 164, 166, 167

verbal accumulation in, 173-5

grammatical additions in, 175

inflation in, 176

grammar, the essential side of, 182

conventionality of, 190-1

ideas borrowed before, 201

survivals in, 209

contraction in, 210

imitation of the inferior by the superior in, 215

monogenism of, 255n.1

classic literature dependent upon spread of, 264, 333

attributed to animals, 274n.1

transition from fashion to custom in, 297

three phases of, 311

in periods of fashion, 342

persistence of custom in, 344

interpretation of renascences in, 362

irreversilanguage, 385-6

See English bility in, Indo-European languages, Latin language. Romance languages.

Latin language

spread of, 9, 219, 257n.1

Spanish or Gallic influence on, 22

vowel differentiation in, 143

imitation of, 144

different verbal forms in, 155

worsted in conflict with Romance tongues, 163

grammatical solidarity of, 175

Greek influence upon, 259

decomposition of, 259sq.

Lavelaye, de, 125

Lavisse, 227n.1

Law

importance of, in social relations, 61

logical conflicts in Roman, 168

substitution and accumulation in, 178

etiquette of, 191

principles of, borrowed before procedure, 201

survivals of feudal, 209

a particular development of religion, 310

distinction between common and statute, 310-11

three phases of, 311sq.

of Twelve Tables adopted through fashion-imitation, 312

spread of Roman and of French, 312-13

distinction between ancient and modern, 314

history of penal, 316-17

in times of fashion, 342

renascences in, 362

Laws

relation of wants and ideas to, 209

sumptuary, illustrative of imitation of superior by inferior, 218

spread of new, 313

distinction between justice and equity in, 318

Roman, 318, 331

industrial progress dependent upon uniform, 321-2.

Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 12

Lenormand, 329

Like-mindedness

not the final criterion of society, 60

law and, 61

spread of, 115, 358

international, 345

Littré, 260, 262, 270n.1

Logique sociale, vi, xiii, 13n.1, 34n.1, 169n.1, 198n.1, 339n.1

Lubbock, 209

Luchaire, 227

Luxury

spread of, 217-19, 335

of shrines and reliquaries, 338n.1

Lyall, 80n.2, 265n.2, 267

M

Maine, Sumner, 95, 267n.1, 288, 292, 293, 314, 315, 316

Malthus, 17

Marriage

its effect upon mortality, 111

statistics of, 117, 120

of Emperor of China, 192n.1

by capture, 209

imitation of patrician, at Rome, 234n.1, 348n.1

transition from unilateral to reciprocal in, 373

Mathematics, science of, dependent upon repetition, 15

Maudsley, 78, 79n.1, 88

Maury, 80, 96, 98, 99

Mendelejeff, 12

Menger, 111

Mill, John Stuart, 383

Mimicry, suggested explanation of, 40n.1

Monadology, 177

Monasticism

a fashion, 127

an expression of the subjection of reproduction to imitation, 251n.1

Monogenism, 43, 255n.1

Morality

rivalry between old and new, 32

a form of industry, 158

its relation to religious proselytism, 281

the spiritual equivalent of ritual, 284

the supremacy of, ib.,

religious origin of, 345, 347

inventions in, 345-7

during periods of custom and of fashion, 346sq.

social character of, 350

N

Nadaillac, de, 96n.1

Naegeli, von, 6n.1

Naturalism

suggested by the supernatural, xvii.

relation of fashion to, 341, 357n.1

Newspapers

future development of, 136

power of, 206, 225n.1, 335

Newton, 26, 36, 48, 177, 178

Niebuhr, 294

Nominalism, its emphasis upon individual variation, 7

Novicow, 331n.1

O

Obelisks, satisfy a social need, 58n.1

Origin of species

suggested explanation of, 4

compared with that of atoms and of civilisations, 13

P

Pangenesis, theory of, 45

Paulhan, 88n.2

Patriotism

originally aristocratic, 231n.1

an enlarged family sentiment, 291

American, 297

spread of, in Greece and France, 351n.2

re-awakening of Greek, 362

Pelitot, Abbé, 223n.1

Perrens, 231n.1

Perrot, 56, 57n.1, 58

Political economy

made possible through effects of fashion, 16

birth of, during ages of fashion, 320

Pottery, art of, not instinctive, 325

Prestige

force of, 78

a non-logical social cause, 141, 214

of Florence, 216

of political majorities, 230

of power and wealth, 233

of antiquity, 246

parental, 269-70, 276

animal, 276

of the foreigner, 291

of Rome, 336n.2

Property, distinction between real and personal, connected with that between custom- and fashion-imitation, 319-20

Public opinion

on spread of railroads in France, 131-2

control of, 230

relation of honour to, 358, 360

Q

Quatrefages, 38

Quetelet, 114, 119, 120

R

Rambaud, 227n.1, 334n.2

Ranke, 370

Raynouard, 22

Realism, its emphasis upon resemblance and repetition, 7

Reclus, Élisée, 326

Regnaud, 143

Religion

refraction in, 23

rivalry of science with, 32

beginning of, 42

futility of persecution in, 153n.1

logical conflicts in, 156, 167

interplay of fashion and custom in. 164

non-contradictory myths in, 173

non-accumulable dogma and ritual in, 176

narrative and dogmatic, 176-7

dogma, the essential side of, 182

etiquette of, 190-1

belief in a, precedes practice of a, 200

spread of, 208, 287

survivals in, 209

originally a luxury, 231n.1

social importance of, 244n.1

distinction between proselyting and non-proselyting, 265-6

animism, the beginning of, 268

primitive forms of, 267-79

spiritualisation of, 279-80

relation of civilisation to, 279sq.

relations of custom and fashion to, 281

distinction between barbaric and civilised, 283-4

compared with government, 289n.1

transition from fashion to custom in, 297

three phases of, 311

usage connected with, 322

the need of sentiment precedes the need of genius in, 331

in times of fashion, 342

undermining of, 358

the assumption by fashion of the mask of custom in, 361-2

irreversibility in, 386

Renan, 172n.1

Repetition

relation of, to variation, 7

forms of universal, ib.

cause of all resemblance, 14

resemblance of parts of space apparently not due to, 15

cerebral, 74

interdependence of, forms of, 249-51

Repetitions

rôle of, in science, 5-6, 14

geometrical progression of, 17

the source of universal, 366n.1

interference of, 382

Reproduction

resemblances due to, 14

Malthusian law of, 17

relation of vibration and imitation to, 34, 249-50

analogous to vibration and imitation, 70-1, 189-90, 211-12, 386

its relation to custom, 253-4

Resemblances

rôle of, in science, 5-6, 14

due to repetition, 14

biological, not due to reproduction, 37-8

social, not due to imitation, 38-9, 325-6

between arts and practices of Old World and New World peoples, 38-9, 41n.1, 47n.1, 96n.1

spontaneous, 50

between Christianity and Buddhism, 57

in decorations of tombs, 96

in prehistoric remains, ib.

linguistic, essential to other social resemblances, 264

in municipal legislation of twelfth and thirteenth centuries, 313-14

in modern ways of living, 323-4

in Oriental usages, 324-5

consciousness of, necessary to industry, 337-8

during periods of custom and of fashion, 346

Respect, social significance of, 86-7

Reuleaux, 63n.1

Ribot, 34n.1, 197

Richet, 76, 81

Rivière, Émile, 326n.1

Romance languages, formation of, 259sq.

Romanes, 37, 67n.1

Romanism, 9-10, 21, 63, 200

Roscher, 227, 334n.1, 336

Rougemont, 329

Royer, Clémence, 39n.1

S

Saint-Simon, 217

Sayce, 142n.1, 191, 255n.1

Schelling, 12

Schliemann, 277

Schulte, 314

Science

place of affirmation in, 4-5

nature of, 4-6

starting-point of, 6n.1

demands of, 10

subject of, 14

source of social revolution, 80n.1

born from Christianity, 125

extension of, 177

comparison between industrial inventions and facts of, 180

the future religion, 286

Seeley, 316

Sensations, the statistics of the external world, 315

Sewing, use of tendons and fish bones in, 47

Slavery, 64, 171

imitation under, 219n.3, 375

origin of, 278-9

at Athens, 349

disappearance of, 380

Smith, Adam, 79, 130

Social causes, distinction between logical and non-logical, 141

Social dialectic, 168

Social forces, composition of, 19

Socialism

a special kind of realism. 7

future conversion to, 30

suppression of competition through State, 33

its spread in cities, 228n.1

modern tendency towards, 306

Sociality, defined, 69

Socialisation, 65

Social logic, xxiii, 150, 166, 238, 285, 310n.1, 382, 388

Social organization

its relation to imitation, 74

dependent upon agreement or opposition of beliefs, 146

Social progress

cause of, 43

definition of, 148

Social reason, 149

relation of fashion to, 341

Social survivals, 152n.1, 209

Social type, analysis of, 68

Society

starting-point of, 28

definition of, 59, 68, 74

economic conception of, criticised, 59-60

distinction between nation and, 65

the organisation of imitativeness, 70

a conception of primitive, 95

equality in primitive, 348

Sociology

as conceived by Comte and Spencer, iv.

scope of pure, ix.-x.

misleading character given to, 1

relation of human to animal, 3

difference between methods of natural science and of, 8-10

more advanced than chemistry or biology, 13

distinction between social philosophy and, ib.

power to predict in, 19

position of race in, 19n.1

distinction between analogies and homologies in, 40

Somnambulism. See Hypnotism.

Spencer, Herbert, iv, xvii, 13, 61n.1, 147, 192n.2, 202, 207, 210, 217n.1, 302sq., 370, 371n.1, 377, 381

Statistical curves

superior to statistical tables, 105

interpretation of, 116sq.

compared to visual images, 132-3

Statistics

made possible through effects of fashion, 16

definition of, 102

the physiology of society, 103

comparison between archæology and, ib.

methods of, 105

gaps in, 108

function of sociological, 110-11

relation of medical, to sociology, 111

meaning of commercial, 112

future of, 133sq.

beginnings of, 134n.1

limitations of, 137

measurement of tendencies to transmission through imitation dependent upon, 194

calculation of actions through, 307

Sympathy

the result of propitious interferences of ideas and volitions, 25

relation of prestige to, 79

T

Taine, 74

Tarde, Gabriel

birth and education of, iii.

his analysis of motive, iii.-iv.

writings of, iii., v., vi., vii., ix., 108n.1, 145n.1, 310n.1, 317n.1, 339n.1, 351n.1

public and professional career of, vi.

See Logique sociale

Tattooing, 41n.2. 127

Thierry, Amédée, 336n.3

Thierry, Augustin, 227

Thompson, 70

Tocqueville, 225n.1, 229, 231, 257, 296, 297, 302sq., 334, 387, 388

Totemism, 41n.1, 275

Tylor, 45n.2, 353

Tyndall, 12

U

Undulation. See Vibration.

United States

spread of telephones in the, 115

growth of population in the, 127

imitation among negroes in the, 219n.1

future carrying trade of the, 220-1

Anglo-American type in the, 252

formation of the, 295-7

centralization in the, 306n.1

transportation and communication in the, 309

tobacco-chewing in the, 327

changeability of naval fashions in the, 334

Universal suffrage

value of, 108n.1

calculation of desires through, 307

kingship the necessary antecedent of, 375

V

Vibration

analogous to heredity and imitation, 11, 71, 189, 211-12, 386

resemblances due to, 14

relation of reproduction to, 34, 249

Vico, 13, 348n.1

Viollet, Paul, 211n.1, 372n.2, 390n.1

Vogué, Melchoir de, 224n.1

Voltaire, 294, 328n.1, 341

Vortex theory, 70

W

Walras, iii.

War

two opposing sides in, 156-7, 161

accumulable inventions in, 174

strategy constitutes, 182

a substitute for individual struggles, 186

leads to peace. 187

imitation in, 216

its effect upon morality, 350

more civilising for conquered than for conqueror, 368

priority of the chase over, 372

transition from the unilateral to the reciprocal in, 377

Weber, 57

Whitney, 191

Wiener, 93

Women

assimilation of, with men, 66

imitation among, 212-13, 223n.1

smaller number of, in cities than men, 228

originally not the associates of men, 348

emancipation of Athenian, 349

the slaves of primitive men, 375

dress fashions less reversible for men than for, 384

Writing

unknown inventor of, 91

its relation to discoveries, 149

conflict between cuneiform and Phœnician, 154, 168

sacred character of, 205

adoption by Japanese of Chinese, 216n.1

from right to left of sacerdotal origin, 322

habit of, necessary to extensive paper-making, 337

Wurtz, 70

Z

Zoborowski, 330n.1

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