Introduction to the Science of Sociology Quotes

“It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.”
― E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess, Introduction to the Science of Sociology

“Furthermore, man is, by his instincts and his inherited dispositions, predestined to a social existence beyond the intimate family circle. Society must be conceived, therefore, as a part of nature, like a beaver's dam or the nests of birds.”
― E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess, Introduction to the Science of Sociology