Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annals, 1898, Vol. 11
The present period in the development of sociological study is a trying one; it is the period of observation, re search and comparison - work always wearisome, often aimless, without well-settled principles and guiding lines, and subject ever to the pertinent criticism: What, after all, has been accomplished? To this the one positive answer which years of research and speculation have been able to return is that the phenomena of society are worth the most careful and systematic study, and whether or not this study may eventually lead to a systematic body of knowledge de serving the name of science, it cannot in any case fail to give the world a mass of truth worth the knowing.
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