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product of immanent regularity, then social development cannot afford to be without a science which shall bring to recognition, over and above all special knowledge, this general regularity. Just as the natural sciences made their way in struggle with the prejudices of the Middle Ages, so must sociology and its philo- sophical basis, positive monism, make their way through the prejudices of false science and reactionary interests. In this respect the words of Goethe's Xenie are, however, still in point :

Amerika, du hast es besser,

Hast keine verfallenen Schlosser.

GUSTAV RATZENHOFER.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA.