Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Journal of Religion, 1922
Now society in any age is an exceedingly complex affair. Even our professional sociologists, with the rich materials Of the present at their disposal, do not find it easy to unravel the intricacies of the modern social nexus. Much less can it be expected that the historian, dependent as he is upon relatively meager sources of information, will be able to lay bare all the secrets of society's life during the centuries that have passed. Nevertheless acceptance of the social point of view does signify some very definite things for the historian's method.
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