Sociology, the science which treats of the nature and the developments of society and of social institutions; a science to which Herbert Spencer, in succession to Comte, has contributed more than any other scientist, deducing, as he does, a series of generalisations by comparison of individual organisms with social.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Socinus, Faustus * Socotra