Books of the Week - Religious Sociology

Professor Durkheim’s book is an evolutionary study of Christianity. It takes the standpoint of what is called “pure science”. It seeks to know the historical facts of the subject before it, and to interpret these facts in their actual historical connections. Probably there will never be a large number of investigators devoted entirely to the work of pure sociology; but the sociological standpoint is gradually becoming more and more common to all scientific workers in the field of history. Soc..