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It was in 1867 that Herbert Sponcor, with the help of several competent assistants, com menced the work of "collecting and classifying an begon of induction, inrge quantities of facts
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monamental and encyclopedic work treating of labour by Mr. E. T. C. Werner, of H. M. Con. Chinese civilization, compiled in half a lifetime's anur Service in that country. In a massive folio of 310 pages he has set forth more than ten thousand-quotations and extracts from the writings of over a thousanil Chinese and foreign authors, and epitomized their residuum of actual (or alleged) facts in nine describe the morphology, the physiology, and elaborate tables and a scale of progress, which the development of the divilisation under review. Truly a great labour of love.
In the opinion of Herbert Spencer the study Most complex forms; he believed in an ascertain- of sociology was the study of evolution in its able order of phenomens to be found by la boriously tracing book prorimate to remote causes. Yet, as we know, he was led, in later maintained nevertheless his belief in social years, to modify many of his thonies, but be science and in the extraction of the gold of His
frow the dross of humanity's records: main object was to prosent the facts, when found, in stol manner as fo enable the student of social science to draw his own conclusions. Nor has his object heen autirely unfulfilled, for it is upon these linos that the Science Sociale of France has con- ducted much successful work, following the Spencerian method; drawing conclusions from accurate data of demonstrable facts, mahirant la suivant la méthaia d'observation," and applying elations to eincational
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ends. tion to Descriptive Sociology is evidently the work of forvent disciple, and from the literary and he. zan standpoint ita vast store of material is valu. able. Bat for scientific purposes of generalization from valid evidence it must be confessed that not only is therabject-matter scanty, but the method of presentation is not such es enables the stad. out to draw any satisfactory conclusions. This, however, is hardly matter for surprise. when we reflect on the uncertainty of the data avail- able, on the notoriously inaccurate nature of China's historical and other records until a comparatively recent date. The human and literary intorest is hore undeniable and curious (of that quality which Mr: BV. Lucas found, and turned to good account, in Giles' "Bio- graphical Dictionary"
"); bat for the eclentific sociologist, the halfpennyworth of bread is with an intolerable deal of sack. The Swamped work has, indeed,
piquant favour of Oriental LODOWN, No. 5a, DUDDELL STREET book-making, suggestive of the Confucian rathor than the Spencerian philosophy. It would have pleased Confucius, no doubt, to record, as It is here recorded, that "cabinet-makers refused to make the legs of bedsteads," or, under the heading of "Food," to obroziole that
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These examples are typical of the fabulous inventions and · Daivo Lppeala to the faculty of wonder in which ancient Chinese writers seem chiefly to rejoice; they more than confirm, as regards. China, the opini ion of Fronds (which Spencer resented) that history does not provide subject-matter for водолее.
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