ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ART.

by Leo Tolstoy/Lyof Tolstoi




Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood




CHAPTER I.



. . . {1} 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 to all the laws of the
evolution of organisms.