Outlines of Sociology

Abstract

THE ancient academic problem of “free will” is always with us; the study of it is never barren, for its meaning changes with the development of society and of social intelligence. As compared with the state of the problem in the time of Hume, for example, the present-day aspect of it is decidedly more clear and scientific. It may be put in Cooley's words: “no man really acts independently of the influences of his fellow men.” “Everywhere,” so Profs. Black-mar and Gillin put it, “there is a social life, setting limitations and predominatingly influencing individual action. In government, in religion, in industry, iti education, in family association—in everything that builds up modern life, men are co-operating. They work together, combine and organise for specific purposes, so that no man lives to himself.

Outlines of Sociology.

By Prof. F. W. Blackmar Prof. J. L. Gillin. Pp. viii + 586. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 8s. 6d. net.