Essays in Sociology, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays in Sociology, Vol. 1

It is a good many years since we have had in our sociological literature a good, serious, sounding croak over the prospects of civilisation. Mr. W. R. Greg's Rocks Ahead is the last performance of the kind which at once recalls itself; and indeed there are many readers who will not recall even that; for Mr. Greg, who was rather overrated in his lifetime, is not now much attended to. Thus Mr. C. H. Pearson, who has devoted a large volume under the title of National Life and Character: a Forecast to themes corresponding to Mr. Greg's, may be said to have had a first-rate opening.

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