On the Significance of Science and Art

On the Significance of Science and Art, by Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
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Title: On the Significance of Science and Art from What to Do?
Author: Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
Release Date: December 27, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell “What to do?” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ART—FROM “WHAT TO DO?”
ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ART.
CHAPTER I.
. . . [169] The justification of all persons who have freed themselves from toil is now founded on experimental, positive science. The scientific theory is as follows:— “For the study of the laws of life of human societies, there exists but one indubitable method,—the positive, experimental, critical method “Only sociology, founded on biology, founded on all the positive sciences, can give us the laws of humanity. Humanity, or human communities, are the organisms already prepared, or still in process of formation, and which are subservient ...