Each New Generation Is Reared By Its

Even One Well-made Observation Will Be Enough In Many Cases, Just As One Well-constructed Experiment Often Suffices For The Establishment Of A Law.

Sociological Method As We Practice It Rests Wholly On The Basic Principle That Social Facts Must Be Studied As Things, That Is, As Realities External To The Individual. There Is No Principle For Which We Have Received More Criticism; But None Is More Fundamental. Indubitably For Sociology To Be Possible, It Must Above All Have An Object All Its Own. It Must Take Cognizance Of A Reality Which Is Not In The Domain Of Other Sciences... There Can Be No Sociology Unless Societies Exist, And That Societies Cannot Exist If There Are Only Individuals.

An Act Cannot Be Defined By The End Sought By The Actor, For An Identical System Of Behaviour May Be Adjustable To Too Many Different Ends Without Altering Its Nature.

This Solidarity Can Grow Only In Inverse Ratio To Personality... Solidarity Which Comes From Likenesses Is At Its Maximum When The Collective Conscience Completely Envelops Our Whole Conscience And Coincides In All Points With It... When This Solidarity Exercises Its Force, Our Personality Vanishes, As Our Definition Permits Us To Say, For We Are No Longer Ourselves, But The Collective Life.

There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The Name Which Does Not Possess A Historical Character.