Chapter X. _of the Inverse Deductive, or Historical Method._

§ 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