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SOCIAL and cultural scholarship, or as we call it in its beginnings, humanism, was, in the development of modern European thought, born before natural science. But it has been badly out-distanced by its younger sister, and only of late can it be seen emerging out of disorganisation and chaos. Nor is the road quite clear yet. Is there any unity in the vast medley of “histories” and “philosophies” whether of language or of literature, of art or of political institutions, of economics or of morals, of law or of religion? In what relation do they stand to the old-fashioned history, pure and simple? Is sociology merely a new name for these studies taken in bulk, or does it stand for an attempt at unification in method, aim, and the adjustment of tasks?
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MALINOWSKI, B. The Earth before History: Man's Origin and the Origin of Life. Prehistoric Man: a General Outline of Prehistory. Social Organisation. Language: a Linguistic Introduction to History. History and Literature of Christianity from Tertullian to Boethius. The Threshold of the Pacific: an Account of the Social Organisation, Magic and Religion of the People of San Cristoval in the Solomon Islands. The History of Civilisation Series. Nature 116, 38–41 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116038a0
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