ABSTRACT
THE ever-growing intellectual curIosIty of modern man makes mankind itself an object of study. Modern science, which began with what is most remote from us - astronomy - now seeks to plot the mechanisms of individual personality and to find out the laws governing social behaviour. The great prestige of the natural sciences and the spectacular technology founded upon them leads to the hope that if only scientific method could be applied to the study of society we might hope to find a solution for the dreadful problems hanging over our life today.
