Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    Everything connected with the physical safety of the social body or individual is placed in this region. The divisions of sex are, of course, obvious. The general idea is to get a sufficiently correct practical analysis. From this analysis, at any stage of it, and it may continue indefinitely, we may, at any given point, recombine these divisions in order to synthesize the unit again and get the combinations of his parts. From the first simple seven divisions—four for the spiritual and three for the rest of the body—we get 126 combinations. These combinations, I claim, constitute that organisation of the sciences we desire. The proof of this I cannot give here, but it is so simple and obvious, presenting only difficulties of detail, due in the main to the present lack of organisation among the sciences themselves, to the shifting fields the terminology of science from time to time covers, that I think it must be accepted sooner or later by the scientists themselves, as a solution of their problem. This was not the ]3roblem, however, I undertook, and I consider it a bye-product of my attack on the problems of Sociology as a Avhole. I would say this, however, that since the sciences proceed from man, and man has already been organised by nature and