Each New Generation Is Reared By Its

Religious Phenomena Are Naturally Arranged In Two Fundamental Categories: Beliefs And Rites. The First Are States Of Opinion, And Consist In Representations; The Second Are Determined Modes Of Action.

Sociological Method As We Practice It Rests Wholly On The Basic Principle That Social Facts Must Be Studied As Things, That Is, As Realities External To The Individual. There Is No Principle For Which We Have Received More Criticism; But None Is More Fundamental. Indubitably For Sociology To Be Possible, It Must Above All Have An Object All Its Own. It Must Take Cognizance Of A Reality Which Is Not In The Domain Of Other Sciences... There Can Be No Sociology Unless Societies Exist, And That Societies Cannot Exist If There Are Only Individuals.

It Is Science, And Not Religion, Which Has Taught Men That Things Are Complex And Difficult To Understand.

Man Could Not Live If He Were Entirely Impervious To Sadness. Many Sorrows Can Be Endured Only By Being Embraced, And The Pleasure Taken In Them Naturally Has A Somewhat Melancholy Character.

We Do Not Condemn It Because It Is A Crime, But It Is A Crime Because We Condemn It.