Ross, EDWARd A. Is Freer Divorce an Evil? PARRY, CARL E. How Far Should the Members of the Family Be Indi- - - SMITH, SAMUEL G. The Minnesota System in Charitable and Correctional SPENCER, ANNA GARLIN. How Far Should the Members of the Family 816 WEATHERLY, U. G. Access of Women to Industrial Occupations Some Questions Concerning the Higher Education WOLFE, A. B. The Relation of Social Diseases to the Family WOODRUFF, CLINTON R. Municipal Review for 1907-8 ZUEBLIN, CHARLES. The Effect on Woman of Economic Dependence BAILEY, L. H. The State and the Farmer.-C. R. Henderson BAUER, ARTHUR. Essai sur les Révolutions.-Isaac A. Loos BOUGLE, C. Essais sur le régime des castes.-Isaac A. Loos BUTTERFIELD, KENYON L. Chapters in Rural Progress.-Thomas J. Riley CARLTON, FRANK T. Education and Industrial Evolution.-H. P. J. Selinger 414 CHATTERTON-HILL, GEORGE. Heredity and Selection in Sociology.-William CRAFTS, WILBUR E. A Primer of the Science of Internationalism.-H. P. 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The Young Malefactor.-C. R. Henderson VANDEWALKER, NINA C. The Kindergarten in American Education.- 124 WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH. Russia's Message.-Issac A. Loos New Worlds for Old.-J. L. Gillin ZUEBLIN, CHARLES. The Privileged Classes.-T. J. Riley Every science has come up out of an embryonic stage in which the most evident activity was not discovery of something new, but rather attempts to establish the claims of something to scientific standing in case it were discovered. The sociologists in their turn have exhausted a disproportionate amount of strength upon the question, Is sociology a science? Whether or not there is, or ever will be, a science of sociology, there is and will hardly cease to be something which, for lack of a better name, we may call the sociological movement. This movement clearly vindicates the sociologists. The phrase "sociological movement" is by no means an adequate description. It is pertinent chiefly because it calls attention to the strategic point around which a new. alignment of thinkers is forming. The movement is not an attempt to isolate the facts of human association from the facts of the physical world in which association occurs. It is still less an attempt to set apart social phenomena from the processes in consciousness to which, as well as to the processes of subhuman nature, the facts of society must be related. It is rather a movement for the transfer of the center of attention in the social sciences from things and processes, as such, to the persons in whom all the things and processes that we know find their last intelligible interpretation. It is a movement to gain I for our conceptions of life a reality which they lack when scattered among uncorrelated abstract and impersonal sciences. It urges that scientific study of persons in actual association, and with their actual processes of association as the center of observation, is at present the most timely variant of our programme for extending and organizing knowledge of the meaning of human experience in general. An eminent professor of political economy in a leading American university lately said that sociology is a science of "left-overs." He did not go far enough. Assuming for the nonce that we may speak of sociology as a science at all, its distinctive interest is not with a plurality of "left-overs," but with a single "left-over." The paradox of the situation is, however, that this single "left-over" is the object of final importance in human knowledge. After the evolution of sciences had culled out from the field of knowledge every action, accident, and appurtenance of men, and had taken countless assortings of these incidentals as the subject-matter of as many sciences, it began dimly to dawn on a few minds that attention to details was taking the place of due regard for the essential. Man himself was crowded out of the calculation. Sociology came into being mainly as an inarticulate protest against scientific attention to every other big or little object of knowledge conceivable, at the expense of virtual exclusion of the most central and meaning object of all from direct investigation; a protest against relegation of that paramount object to the rank of a "left-over"viz., man himself. Stating the situation in another way: A certain type of people who are studying human experience are converging toward a common center in pursuit of their object. Some of them see this. More are not yet aware of it. Whether they perceive it or not, many men and women who started from the standpoint of philosophy, or psychology, or ethics, or history, or political science, or anthropology, or religion, or philanthropy, or from unlabeled and uncritical points of departure, are assembling on the common ground of interest in the values that are lodged in human beings themselves. They are coming to see that their |