Excerpt from The Principles of Sociology, Vol. 1: Part II There are two great classes Of aggregates with which the social aggregate may be compared - the inorganic and the organic. Are the attributes Of a society in any way like those Of a not-living body? Or are they in any way like those Of a living body or are they entirely unlike those of both? The first Of these questions needs only to be asked to be answered in the negative. A whole Of which the parts are alive, cannot, in its general characters, be like lifeless wholes. The second question, not to be thus promptly answered, is to be answered in the affirmative. The rea sons for asserting that the permanent relations among the parts of a society, are analogous to the permanent relations among the parts of a living body, we have now to consider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.