Man Cannot Become Attached To Higher Aims

A Social Fact Is Every Way Of Acting, Fixed Or Not, Capable Of Exercising On The Individual An External Constraint; Or Again, Every Way Of Acting Which Is General Throughout A Given Society, While At The Same Time Existing In Its Own Right Independent Of Its Individual Manifestations.

Melancholy Suicide. - This Is Connected With A General State Of Extreme Depression And Exaggerated Sadness, Causing The Patient No Longer To Realize Sanely The Bonds Which Connect Him With People And Things About Him. Pleasures No Longer Attract.

Men Have Been Obliged To Make For Themselves A Notion Of What Religion Is, Long Before The Science Of Religions Started Its Methodical Comparisons.

The Roles Of Art, Morality, Religion, Political Faith, Science Itself Are Not To Repair Organic Exhaustion Nor To Provide Sound Functioning Of The Organs. All This Supraphysical Life Is Built And Expanded Not Because Of The Demands Of The Cosmic Environment But Because Of The Demands Of The Social Environment.

Religious Representations Are Collective Representations Which Express Collective Realities.