Iteapecting JI, Comte's application of the words s(a(ic$
and dynamics to social phenomona, now that I know what
it is, I will only say that while I perfectly understand how,
by a defensible extension of their mathematical meanings,
the one may be used to indicate social functions in balance,
and the other social /u/iC?) 01 js out of balance, I am quite at a
loss to understand how the phenomena of structure can be
included in the one any more than in the other. But the
two things which hero concern me, ave, first, to point out that
I had not "the slightest notion" of giving Social Statics the
meaning which M. Comte gave it ; and, second, to explain
the meaning which I did give it. The imits of any ag-
gregate of matter, are in equilibrium when they severally
act and re-act upon each other on all sides with equal forces.
