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This is the most interesting treatment I have read of how there came to be a felt need for sociology, of how a place was created in the intellectual firmament for this new science.\"  -Craig Calhoun, University of North Carolina \"At a time of the breakdown of sociology, or at least the virtual loss of the idea of historicity within the discipline, this examination of the birth of sociology can provide valuable insight into the current condition no less than the glorious antecedents of a major field of social research...[A New Science] does a great deal to explain how the field of sociology comes to reject connections, and celebrate distinctions:  distinctions of class, race, nationality, and the like.  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