A HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT A HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT BY EMORY S. BOGARDUS, PH.D. _Professor and Head of Department of Sociology and Social Work University of Southern California_ _Author of_ INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY ESSENTIALS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ESSENTIALS OF AMERICANIZATION 1922 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESS 3474 UNIVERSITY AVENUE LOS ANGELES Copyright 1922, University of Southern California Press JESSE RAY MILLER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESS LOS ANGELES DEDICATED TO MY STUDENTS WHO ARE TRANSFORMING THEIR SOCIAL THOUGHT INTO HELPFUL LIVING CONTENTS 1. THE NATURE OF SOCIAL THOUGHT 11 2. EARLIEST SOCIAL THOUGHT 20 3. THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS 36 4. THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF THE HEBREWS 54 5. PLATO AND GRECIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 74 6. ARISTOTLE AND GRECIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 101 7. ROMAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 114 8. EARLY CHRISTIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 121 9. SOCIAL THOUGHT IN THE MIDDLE AGES 145 10. MORE AND UTOPIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 154 11. INDIVIDUALISTIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 173 12. MALTHUS AND POPULATION CONCEPTS 199 13. COMTE AND POSITIVE SOCIAL THOUGHT 209 14. MARX AND SOCIALISTIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 226 15. BUCKLE AND GEOGRAPHIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 246 16. SPENCER AND ORGANIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 257 17. THE SOCIOLOGY OF LESTER F. WARD 277 18. ANTHROPOLOGIC SOCIOLOGY 301 19. EUGENIC SOCIOLOGY 325 20. CONFLICT THEORIES IN SOCIOLOGY 338 21. CO-OPERATION THEORIES IN SOCIOLOGY 352 22. PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGIC THOUGHT 367 23. PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGIC THOUGHT (_continued_) 389 24. THE TREND OF APPLIED SOCIOLOGY 423 25. THE RISE OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY 442 26. THE SOCIOLOGY OF MODERN CHRISTIANITY 451 27. METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION 475 28. THE DISSEMINATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT 489 INDEX 504 PREFACE This book is written for the world of students. In it any seriously-minded person should find a fundamental background for understanding the central theme of human progress, a substantial basis for attacking the most important problems of the day, and a call to renew his faith in the soundness of human aspirations.