Biology / by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson.

  • Patrick Geddes
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[1925]
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Credit: Biology / by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    within our powers (Ofe). Moreover, here we are in the true laboratory of Economics; and we see how and why so many economists —of any and every school—fall short and fail, if they have not adequately come to grips with their would-be science by passing through work-experience; but have been content to listen to the bargainings of the market. So too when our chosen type- organisms are human Folk : since we here gain no less illumination from anthropology, with its folk-ways, folk-lore, and so on. We even see fresh light on all these three main sub-sciences—Geography (Place), Econo¬ mics (Work), and Anthropology (Folk)— when we realise their correlation, and escape from their long-persisting detachment— their dis-specialism, as separate societies, institutes, museums, libraries, university departments, or miscellaneous reading—into the elements of a unifying chord of life, fundamental henceforth to a yet more unifying science—Sociology. Our first outline of life’s synthesis, helpful for all the four living sub-sciences of Biology, as Efo : Ofe, can now be thoroughly parallel¬ ised with the like for Sociology as Pwf: Fwp, as we have just seen that arise, from the unified sub-sciences of Place, Work and Folk. And though these have been long in coming to recognise their place within its larger fold, this cannot be much longer delayed. For this assures them an increased
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