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Race and State (1875) the title of which was afterward changed into The Sociological Idea of the State (1881), and reappeared lately, enlarged, as General State Law ("Allgemeines Staats- recht") (1907). How much Gumplowicz advanced the develop- ment of sociology is proved by the unusual circulation of his works. The Sociological Idea of the State and the Outlines of Sociology have appeared in two, the Austrian State Law and General State Law in three, German editions. Many of his larger works, as, for instance, the Outlines of Sociology, Austrian State Law, The Race Struggle, Sociological Essays, Sociology and Politics, and others, have been translated into foreign languages. Besides the Germans and Poles, in whose language Gumplowicz wrote his books himself, the English, French, Italians, Japanese, Roumanians, Russians, and Spaniards have endeavored to ac- quaint themselves with the works of this great thinker in their own language. A number of valuable, characteristic essays of the departed, which deserve to be collected, have appeared in numer- ous papers, reviews, and technical journals in his own and in foreign countries. In the last few years Gumplowicz has chiefly favored the Vienna paper Die Wage, Eleutheropulos' Monats- schrift fUr Soziologie, the Beilagen zur Miinchener Allgemeinen Zeitung, and the Warsaw Przeglad Historyczny which, in its next number, will publish his last essay on "Sociology and Politics."

Gumplowicz possessed to the last a wealth of youthful strength of mind which surprised everybody. When, as in each year, I visited him on July 18 in Graz, he showed, though suffer- ing from a cruel disease, the liveliest interest in science and its mission. He seemed much concerned over the Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Bern, which had then but recently adjourned.

"Sociology is not exactly his creation," writes Professor Dr. A. Eleutheropulos, "for it is a genuine science and a science is not born like a child, but develops gradually like a crystal. But Gumplowicz is one of the few, who have helped the formation of these crystals."

May earth be lighter to him than life, for which he achieved and yet suffered so much !