Note 1254 — Chapter III · : THE SOLIDARISTS

There are still a few adherents left. See M. Worms’s book, Organisme et Société, and Lilienfeld’s Pathologie sociale.

Herbert Spencer, who was the pioneer of the analogy, had abandoned it; and Auguste Comte, the godfather of sociology, took good care to put sociologists on their guard against the method, which he considered irrational.