Note 1253 — Chapter III · : THE SOLIDARISTS
R. (Robert) Richards translation
Social biology dates from the publication of Professor Schäffle’s great work Bau und Leben des sozialen Körpers (1875-78); possibly from the publication of Rodbertus’s work—at any rate, Rodbertus accuses Schäffle of plagiarism. See also Spencer’s Principles of Sociology. Aristotle had already ventured to say that “an animal is just like a well-ordered city,” a proposition that might well be inverted.