ABSTRACT
Though the dynamic part of social science is the most interesting, the most easily intelligible, and the fittest to disclose the laws of interconnection, still the static part must not be entirely passed over. Gall's cerebral theory has destroyed forever the metaphysical fancies of the last century about the origin of man's social tendencies, which are now proved to be inherent in his nature, and not the result of utilitarian considerations. The chapter reviews the conditions and laws of harmony of human society, and complete political theorists static conceptions, as far as the nascent state of the science allows, when political theorists afterwards survey the historical development of humanity. The true social unit is certainly the family—reduced to the elementary couple that forms its basis. When duly generalized, the idea and the feeling pass on from the immediate parents to ancestors, and issue in that universal respect for political theorists predecessors that is an indispensable condition of all social economy.
