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53 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

but shade one into the other. All judgment, considered either logically or psychologically, is, in the last analysis, an interpreta- tion, and so the judgment of description shades imperceptibly into the judgment of appreciation. It would seem that the investiga- tion of the future which shall be the most fruitful will be one which recognizes that sociology does hold some such mediating position, analogous to that held by psychology, but perhaps on a slightly higher plane, and one which accordingly develops a method of procedure, a system of categories, distinctly its own.

PHILIP H. FOGEL.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.