THE PSYCHIC FACTORS OF CIVILIZATION BY LESTER F. WARD AUTHOR OF DYNAMIC SOCIOLOGY," "OUTLINES OF SOCIOLOGY," SECOND EDITION GINN & COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK. CHICAGO. LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1892, 1906 BY LESTER F. WARD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 76.6 The Athenæum Press The true place which mind fills in the scheme of nature is the most important truth to be learned in the study of philosophy. . . . The true order of development is from the non-psychic to the psychic, and from the less psychic to the more psychic, and not, as is popularly supposed, from the highest toward the lowest manifestations of this property. This great psychic paradox lies at the base of philosophy, and has ever been its fundamental bane.-Dynamic Sociology, II, 76. Le véritable esprit général de la sociologie dynamique consiste à concevoir chacun de ces états sociaux consécutifs comme le résultat nécessaire du précédent et le moteur indispensable du suivant, selon le lumineux axiome du grand Leibnitz: Le présent est gros de l'avenir.— Auguste COMTE: Philosophie Positive, IV, 263. UNIV. OF MICH. ECONOMICS Accession. 5/6 Coppey 1. |