Excerpt from Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 8: Issued Bi-Monthly; July, 1896-December, 1896 There has at last appeared, an American work on the Principles of written by one who holds the chair' of sociology in one of the leading universities of the country. Heretofore, so far as I am aware, only two works (exclusive of articles and reviews) containing the word sociology in. Their titles have been issued in America. One of these appeared thirteen years ago, and though even larger thani the present one, did not profess to deal with the whole sub ject, but only with one of its most advanced phases. The other work, emanating from the same institution as this one, treats of sociology from the standpoint of statistics. 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.