•The THE MACMILLAN COMPANY MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTIONARY OF SOCIETY BY ALBERT GALLOWAY KELLER PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1915 All rights reserved 301 789489 COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1915. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co. PREFACE For many years the phraseology of evolution has been current. Scientists use it because evolution has come to be the underlying idea of several modern sciences; and less serious writers find their vocabularies colored by what has now become a popular doctrine. Evolution is the fashion, and to affect evolutionary terminology is one method of lending a pseudodignity to the trivial. All this is peculiarly marked in writings having to do with sociological subjects. Naturally the terms originally used by Darwin and his followers have suffered, in passing from hand to hand, a considerable amount of damage. Like coins that have been circulating indiscriminately, they have lost their sharpness of outline and definiteness of superscription. It is almost impossible to discover what some authors who deal with social topics-let alone the host of popular writers and orators-mean by evolution. In the endeavor, some years ago, to dispel from my mind the vagueness of the evolution |