Programme of meetings, 1904 / The Sociological Society.

  • Sociological Society.
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1904
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Credit: Programme of meetings, 1904 / The Sociological Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPRESSIONS OF APPROVAL. From a large number of letters received, expressing approval of the project, the following extracts may be cited From Rt. Hon. A. J. BALFOUR, M.P. “ I welcome any attempt to organise Sociological investigations on a strictly scientific basis. I understand this to be the object of the proposed Society, and, if so, I heartily wish it success.” From the late Professor BAIN. “ I beg to say that the object of the Society has my cordial approval. My published writings sufficiently testify to the interest I have long felt in the subject.” From Professor BASTABLE (Professor of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin). “ I have long felt the need of such a Society. If in any way I can further the movement you are initiating I shall be happy to do so.” From the Rev. A. I CALDECOTT (Professor of Logic and Philosophy, King’s College, and Chairman of the Board of Philosophical Studies in the University of London). “ If a comprehensive scope is agreed upon, I anticipate great advantage from a Society which would associate together many of us who meet too seldom, although we are occupied only in different plots of the same great field.” From F. HOWARD COLLINS (Author of “Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer”). “I write to wish you every success in a movement which has, I think, potentialities of great importance and value as treating of matters which have so far received but little organised effort for their development.” From the Rev. Professor FLINT (Author of the “ History of Philosophy of History,” &c.). “ I regard the formation of such a Society as very desirable, and the want of one with an appropriate literary organ as a very serious defect.” From the Rev. A. M. FA1RBAIRN (Principal, Mansfield College, Oxford). “ My sympathies are all with you in the study of Sociology.” From Mr. FRANCIS GALTON. “ It gives me pleasure to send a small donation of £5 towards the cost of the preliminary stages in organising the Sociological Society.” From T. C. HORSFALL (President of Manchester Art Museum and University Settlement; President of Manchester and Salford Association for the Improvement of the Homes and Surroundings of the People). “ I am extremely glad to learn that it is probable that a Sociological Society will be formed.” From E. RAY LANCASTER (Director, Natural History Department, British Museum). “ I regret I have not the time to assist in your Society (Sociological), with the objects of which I strongly sympathise.” From Professor J. S. MACKENZIE (Professor of Philosophy, University College, Cardiff). “ I shall cordially do all that I can to help the movement.” From J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A. (Lecturer in History, St. John’s College, Cambridge). “ I consider that, if carried into accomplishment, the projected Society will afford most valuable aid to that more scientific study and treatment of History which some of us, at least, are doing our best at Cambridge to bring about.” From the BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. “There can be no doubt about the importance of the future that lies before the study of Sociology. From the names, your Society seems to have the prospect of encouraging it in an open- minded and unprejudiced manner, and I am very glad to welcome it.” From the Hon. BERTRAND RUSSELL (author of “ Principles of Mathematics,” etc.). “ I am strongly in favour of the objects of the proposed Society, particularly of the scientific study of Sociology.” From Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD. “ I am much interested in the foundation of the Sociological Society, and wish It all success. I enclose a donation of ^1 Is.” From Professor TONNIES (of the University of Kiel). “ It is with considerable satisfaction that I hear of the formation of a Sociological Society in England, for I have long been waiting for a symptom of a rise of the modern intellectual movement in that direction, especially in your country, which has done so much to promote and to develop it. I look with the greatest interest upon what Mr. Oscar Browning has said and communicated as a posthumous encouragement to your Society from the late Sir J. Seeley.”