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 NOTE ON WARD'S "PURE SOCIOLOGY" 707

realize purposes. But this is the center of gravity of sociology, and everything that stops short of this must be regarded as mere settlement of preliminaries.

I envy the sociologist who can read Pure Sociology and not feel oppressed by the limitations of his knowledge. The book draws from many sources that are sealed to most of us. While we may be incompetent to discuss frequent details, we may wonder at the author's tremendous power of generalization and organization. He has been in a class by himself for twenty years, and in spite of all qualifications, this latest volume justifies the belief that his final rank will be among

the first-rate thinkers of our period.

ALBION W. SMALL. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.