LIBRARY OF

ECONOMICS AND POLITICS.

EDITED BY

RICHARD T. ELY, PH.D., LL.D.

NUMBER SEVEN.

Library of Economics and Politics.

Independent Treasury System of the United States.

By DAVID KINLEY, A.B. 12mo.
Repudiation of State Debts in the United States.

By WILLIAM A. SCOTT, Ph.D. 12mo.

Socialism and Social Reform.

$1.50

1.50

By RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., LL.D. 12mo.

1.50

American Charities.

By AMOS G. WARNER, Ph.D., Professor of Economics in the Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

12mo.

1.75

Hull-House Maps and Papers. A Presentation of

Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago.
With Maps. 8vo.

Special Edition, with Maps mounted on Linen. 8vo.

Punishment and Reformation.

2.50

3.50

By F. H. WINES, LL.D. 12mo.

1.75

Social Theory. A Grouping of Social Facts and

Principles. By JOHN BASCOM, Professor of Political Econ

omy in Williams College. 12mo.

1.75

Proportional Representation.

By JOHN R. COMMONS, Professor of Sociology in Syracuse
University. 12mo.

the Internal Revenue System. By FREDERIC C. HOWE, A.M.,
Ph D.

1.75

An Essay on the Present Distribution of Wealth

in the United States. By CHARLES B. SPAHR, Ph.D. 12mo.

1.50

Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime.

By WM. P. TRENT, A M. 12mo. Gilt top, with portraits.

2.00

Workingmen's Insurance.

By W. F. WILLOUGHBY, Department of Labor, Washington,
D. C. 12mo.

Congressional Committees.

A GROUPING OF SOCIAL FACTS

AND PRINCIPLES

BY

JOHN BASCOM

AUTHOR OF "ETHICS," "SOCIOLOGY," ETC.

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1895,

BY THOMAS Y. CroweLL & COMPANY.

TYPOGRAPHY BỶ C. J. PETERS & SON,

BOSTON.

THIS VOLUME

IS INSCRIBED TO

EMMA CURTISS BASCOM,

WHOSE THOUGHTS ON ITS THEMES HAVE KEPT

COMPANY WITH MY THOUGHTS

THESE MANY YEARS.