Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2083

Extensive marginal pencilings by Heath, New York City and Albuquerque, in Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method, George E. G. Catlin, ed. Only a few are reproduced here below; the rest are noted as to location in PDF Item 2083a.

 

 

 

 

6/   All this is simply animal training — mere pedagogy. Education develops the power to create.

19/  The group is a society only in virtue of /and insofar as/ the interactions among its members are contractual. Only so far does it function creatively upon its environment.

 

35/  We must postulate the function, then select what is functional.

 

35/  Pathology is no key to normality.

 

41/  What serves life is moral and real and enduring. … The true standard is service to life.