In our present study of Economic Statics we must seek to discover how these standards are fixed, in the midst of the overturnings which industrial society undergoes.
In the work referred to, issued in 1899, an effort was made to isolate the phenomena of Economic Staticsand to attain the laws which govern them.
Social Economic Statics is a body of principles which act in every stage of civilization and draw society at every separate period toward a static norm, though they do not at any two periods draw it toward the same norm.
On the contrary, up to 1844 Engels was a Utopian--until Marx explained to him the meaning of political and social conflicts, the basis and the motive force, the statics and dynamics of the history of civilised mankind.
Or in other words: we have hitherto considered the staticsof society; we will now look at its dynamics.
The statics of society is the study of the conditions of existence and permanence of the social state.
He can hardly have seemed even to himself to have originated, in the statics of society, anything new,[15] unless his revival of the Catholic idea of a Spiritual Power may be so considered.
These views of Bergman's were immediately acceded to by the chemical world, and continued to regulate their processes till Berthollet published his Chemical Statics in 1802.
Its foundation is a statics and mechanics of the Soul,--as this real is called.
Psychology then deals with a real, which exhibits phenomena analogous in several respects to those discussed by staticsand mechanics.
It is easy to see how the problems of psychology now assume the form of a statics and mechanics of the mind.
We have thus a statics and a mechanics of mind which investigate respectively the conditions of equilibrium and of movement among presentations.
Sundry discoveries are afterwards detailed, showing how completely the development of statics has been achieved by considering its problems dynamically; and before the close of the section M.
So, for instance, it seems scarcely to the point to speak of the statics of production, exchange, consumption, circulation.
Pitt's reliance on the statics of statecraft rather than on the dynamics of nationality tells against the credibility of the oft-repeated story that he prophesied the liberation of Europe by the enthusiasm and efforts of the Spaniards.
They saw only the statics of territories; they had no conception of the dynamics of nations.
The bending of beams was also studied by Coulomb and Robison, but Young appears to have been almost the first to apply the theory of elasticity to the statics of structures.
The discovery of the laws which govern the interaction of the psychical elements is the task of a statics and a mechanics of representations.
The fundamental concept of the Statics is the consensus, the harmony, solidarity, or mutual dependence of the members of the social organism.
That the latter are absolutely amenable to physical laws was proved long ago by the great Spinoza in his famous Statics of Emotion.
He was already known rather favorably by many of the scientific men of the capital because of the paper on The Statics of Vaults, a monograph on static problems in architecture, which he presented to the Academy of Sciences in 1779.
The former are ascertained and verified by Social Statics (which is the theory of the consensus, i.
In ordinary mechanics the bridge from statics to dynamics is--the push from the outside.
If in mechanics, heat included, there is no bridge to be found from statics to dynamics, from equipoise to motion, why should Herr Duehring be obliged to find a bridge from his condition of absence of motion to motion?
The bridge from statics to dynamics is therefore the push from the outside caused by the cooling or heating occasioned by other bodies which influence certain objects in equipoise.
Division II is represented only by Chapter V, Introductory; Chapter VI, Statics of a Particle and Attractions; and Chapter VII, Statics of Solids and Fluids.
As already remarked, one of the main results of the science of social statics would be to ascertain the requisites of stable political union.
In statics forces act so as to prevent any change of motion, or disturb the body's original position.
Furthermore, statics is shown to be the science of work, while dynamics, besides treating of kinetic energy in itself, also treats of the phenomena of the change of work into kinetic energy, and vice versa.
We then learn that staticsis the science of work, or the energy of position, and that dynamics is the science of living force, or of the energy of motion.
