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The Principles of Sociology - Completed
Herbert Spencer
其他書名
Great Essays
出版VM eBooks, 2016-11-09
主題Philosophy / EssaysPhilosophy / Individual PhilosophersScience / EssaysSocial Science / Essays
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=un52DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋For the Science of Society, the name “Sociology” was introduced by M. Comte. Partly because it was in possession of the field, and partly because no other name sufficiently comprehensive existed, I adopted it. Though repeatedly blamed by those who condemn the word as “a barbarism,” I do not regret having done so. To use, as some have suggested, the word “Politics,” too narrow in its meaning as well as misleading in its connotations, would be deliberately to create confusion for the sake of avoiding a defect of no practical moment. The heterogeneity of our speech is already so great that nearly every thought is expressed in words taken from two or three languages. Already, too, it has many words formed in irregular ways from heterogeneous roots. Seeing this, I accept without much reluctance another such word: believing that the convenience and suggestiveness of our symbols are of more importance than the legitimacy of their derivation.