Abstract

How Digging Began

This article presents the author's views on sociology research. The sound conservative who prefers to think of a world finished once for all, warranted not to move or to develop, might find satisfaction in exhuming a forgotten Eden tale of the early sixteenth century, known as "Fifth Eclogue." Here is to be recovered an account of creation at-least as static as the one in the narrative of Holy Writ, with additional reassurance concerning the final and divine ordinance for existing classes. There is in the rugged lines no notion at all of irony, but they present with naive and unconscious daring a theory of social origins as diverting as the mind of Anatole France could contrive for the race of penguins, a comfortable creed for the easier centuries before the voice of Demos was heard in the land.