SOCIAL STATICS ON THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN HAPPINESS
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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 152 pages. Dimensions: 9.6in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER XXX. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 1. Social Philosophy may be aptly divided (as political economy has been) into statics and dynamics; the first treating of the equilibrium of a perfect society, the second of the forces by which society is advanced toward perfection. To determine what laws we must obey for the obtainment of complete happiness is the object of the one, whilst that of the other is to analyze the influences which are making us competent to obey these laws. Hitherto we have concerned ourselves chiefly with the statics, touching upon the dynamics only occasionally for purposes of elucidation. Now, however, the dynamics claim special attention. Some of the phenomena of progress already referred to need further explanation, and many others associated with them remain to be noticed. There are also sundry general considerations not admissible into foregoing chapters, which may here be fitly included. 2. And first let us mark, that the course of civilization could not possibly have been other than it has been. Whether a perfect social state might have been at once established; and why, if it might have been, it was not--why for unnumbered ages the world was filled with inferior creatures only--and why mankind were left to make it fit for human life by clearing it of these--are questions that need not be discussed here. But given an unsubdued earth; given the being--man, appointed to overspread and occupy it; given the laws of life what they are; and no other series of changes than that which has taken place, could have taken place. For he it remembered, that the ultimate purpose of creation--the production of the greatest amount of happiness--can be fulfilled only under certain fixed conditions (p. 83). Each member of the race fulfi. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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