Social Life Comes From A Double Source,

When Mores Are Sufficient, Laws Are Unnecessary. When Mores Are Insufficient, Laws Are Unenforceable.

Maniacal Suicide. —this Is Due To Hallucinations Or Delirious Conceptions. The Patient Kills Himself To Escape From An Imaginary Danger Or Disgrace, Or To Obey A Mysterious Order From On High, Etc.

Sociological Method As We Practice It Rests Wholly On The Basic Principle That Social Facts Must Be Studied As Things, That Is, As Realities External To The Individual. There Is No Principle For Which We Have Received More Criticism; But None Is More Fundamental. Indubitably For Sociology To Be Possible, It Must Above All Have An Object All Its Own. It Must Take Cognizance Of A Reality Which Is Not In The Domain Of Other Sciences... There Can Be No Sociology Unless Societies Exist, And That Societies Cannot Exist If There Are Only Individuals.

This Solidarity Can Grow Only In Inverse Ratio To Personality... Solidarity Which Comes From Likenesses Is At Its Maximum When The Collective Conscience Completely Envelops Our Whole Conscience And Coincides In All Points With It... When This Solidarity Exercises Its Force, Our Personality Vanishes, As Our Definition Permits Us To Say, For We Are No Longer Ourselves, But The Collective Life.

A Person Is Not Merely A Single Subject Distinguished From All The Others. It Is Especially A Being To Which Is Attributed A Relative Autonomy In Relation To The Environment With Which It Is Most Immediately In Contact.