Nature, abstract, laws, not divine. Religion of humanity emerges- sociologists will be priests of the new religion and will guide humankind. Scientific thinking will replace doctrines of love, order, and progress. The greater the exercise of higher facilities, the greater the progress 2. Little formal education, yet wrote on biology, philosophy, psychology,ethics, and sociology.
Natural world is governed by evolution.
Social world is governed by evolution. Which means that evolution is a process of successive differentiation and integration. Viewed society as an organism. Like any living thing, society is a matter of continuing growth and increasing structural complexity Dissimilar parts have differing functions, which are not merely diverse, but must function together for the whole to exist. Body can have aliments- germs, worms, so can social systems.