Three representative examples of semi-neighborhood-like grasping-to-be "Social Principias", namely: Leon Winiarski's Essay on Social Mechanics (1898), Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology (1912), and Mirza Beg’s New Dimensions in Sociology: a Physico-Chemical Approach to Human Behavior (1987). |
“Happiness he acknowledges is ‘our being's end and aim’; and the only true science which leads to its attainment is sociology. As the doctrine of the material movements in the universe has been fixed by Newton's discoveries, so too the laws which regulate the movements in the social world must first be ascertained before we can hope to render mankind happy. To become such a social Newton was undoubtedly Fourier's ambition, and this is the fundamental law of his social Principia.”
“The Declaration of Independence, therefore, is a social Principia, pretending to prescribe a social physics for mankind. It was used by Jefferson to justify the American Revolution, but it clearly is applicable to all men at all times in all conditions.”— Author (1977), “Article” (ΡΊ), Cornell Review, Issues 1-4