Dynamic Sociology

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: benefits of religion?The moral ganctinn of religion?Solace derived frora the belief in immortality?Contemplation of the attributes of deity?-Sub- ' jective moral efficacy of prayer?Anti-progressive tendencies of religion? Suicidal effects of superstition?Mutilations, orgies, and sacrifices at funeral)...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: benefits of religion?The moral ganctinn of religion?Solace derived frora the belief in immortality?Contemplation of the attributes of deity?-Sub- ' jective moral efficacy of prayer?Anti-progressive tendencies of religion? Suicidal effects of superstition?Mutilations, orgies, and sacrifices at funeral) ?Destruction of property at funerals?Opposition of religion to science? Negative opposition, the priesthood?Divorce of man from nature?Asceticism?Self-torture?Positive or direct opposition?Religion and progress? The conflict between religion and science?Conclusion: Method of human progress and means of accelerating it. Dynam1c Soc1ology aims at the organization of happiness. In this it differs from moral science, which also aims at the production of the greatest happiness, but which seeks this end by the aid of rules for the control of individual conduct. Such rules are moral in their character, t. e., they are based on the feelings. They are in the nature of appeals. They may be appeals to the reason, but in behalf of the feelings. Usually, however, they are appeals to the sympathies. They are suggested to the framer directly by experience and observation. Feeling, either egoistic or altruistic, originates them. They are not in the nature of inventions. They may be thought out, but they are not devised. They rest upon the most obvious, not npon the most recondite, truths of human nature. They do not recognize any natural forces as at work in the domain of human action. They rather assume the non-conformity of human action with law. But for such assumption they would possess no justification. For, as well appeal to the winds or the tides as to the equally fixed forces of society. It is this which has rendered all regulative systems so unsuccessful. It is only as those appeals have...