"The  complicated  modern  state,  with  its  remarkable
achievements,  may  be  regarded  as  the  highest  stage  of  in-
dividual perfection  which  is  known  to  us  in  organic  na-
ture. But  we  can  only  understand  the  structure  of  this
extremely  complex  'organism  of  the  highest  order/  and  its
social  forms  and  functions,  when  we  have  a  sociological
knowledge  of  the  various  classes  that  compose  it,  and  the
laws  of  their  association  and  division  of  labor ;  and  when
we  have  made  an  anthropological  study  of  the  nature  of
the  persons  who  have  united,  under  the  same  laws,  for
the  formation  of  a  community  and  are  distributed  in  its
various  classes.  The  familiar  arrangement  of  these
classes,  and  the  settling  of  the  rank  in  the  mass  and  the
governing  body,  show  us  how  this  complex  social  organ-
ism is  built  up  step  by  step.
