Chapter 1
_ CHAPTER I
(Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood)
. . . {169} The justification of all persons who have freed themselves from toil is now founded on experimental, positive science. The scientific theory is as follows:--
[Note: {169} An omission by the censor, which I am unable to supply. TRANS.]
"For the study of the laws of life of human societies, there exists but one indubitable method,--the positive, experimental, critical method
"Only sociology, founded on biology, founded on all the positive sciences, can give us the laws of humanity. Humanity, or human communities, are the organisms already prepared, or still in process of formation, and which are subservient to all the laws of the evolution of organisms.
"One of the chief of these laws is the variation of destination among the portions of the organs. Some people command, others obey. If some have in superabundance, and others in want, this arises not from the will of God, not because the empire is a form of

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