§ 1. Distinction between the general Science of Society, and special sociological inquiries 506 2. What is meant by a State of Society? 506 3. The Progressiveness of Man and Society 508 4. The laws of the succession of states of society can only be ascertained by the Inverse Deductive Method 511 5. Social Statics, or the science of the Coexistences of Social Phenomena 513 6. Social Dynamics, or the science of the Successions of Social Phenomena 521 7. Outlines of the Historical Method 522 8. Future prospects of Sociological Inquiry 525 CHAPTER XI. _Additional Elucidations of the Science of History._ § 1. The subjection of historical facts to uniform laws is verified by statistics 529 2. --does not imply the insignificance of moral causes 532 3. --nor the inefficacy of the characters of individuals and of the acts of governments 535 4. The historical importance of eminent men and of the policy of governments illustrated 540 CHAPTER XII. _Of the Logic of Practice, or Art; including Morality and Policy._ § 1. Morality not a science, but an Art 544 2. Relation between rules of art and the theorems of the corresponding science 544 3. What is the proper function of rules of art? 546 4. Art cannot be Deductive 548 5. Every Art consists of truths of Science, arranged in the order suitable for some practical use 549 6. Teleology, or the Doctrine of Ends 550 7. Necessity of an ultimate standard, or first principle of Teleology 552 8. Conclusion 554 BOOK III. _CONTINUED._ OF INDUCTION. "In such cases the inductive and deductive methods of inquiry may be said to go hand in hand, the one verifying the conclusions deduced by the other; and the combination of experiment and theory, which may thus be brought to bear in such cases, forms an engine of discovery infinitely more powerful than either taken separately. This state of any department of science is perhaps of all others the most interesting, and that which promises the most to research."--SIR J. HERSCHEL, _Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy_. CHAPTER XIV. OF THE LIMITS TO THE EXPLANATION OF LAWS OF NATURE; AND OF HYPOTHESES.