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later still, of the United Nations, of which the formation of the
Central Office of International Institutions and the Union of
International Associations in Brussels in 1910 were immediate
precursors.
The work of the International Office of Sociological Bibliography,
especially when put in such a context was perhaps
grandiosely conceived. But it was publishing two bibliographic
journals and a large body of collaborators for the
Office had been assembled through the Revue sociale et poli-
Uque which the Office was publishing for the Societe des
Etudes 20 and by 1894 the repertories contained over 100,000
cards. For the hopeful Directors of the Office, this augured well
for future and greater success.
FOOTNOTES
1. H. Carton, Comte de Wiart, «Souvenirs sur Edmond Picard», Revue
generate (15 Janvier il937), pp. 59—77.
2. For a list of Otlet's publications see the Bibliography at the end of
this work.
3. W. M. Simon, European Positivism in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca,
N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1963), p. 6.
4. Pierre Duoassee, «La Synthese positiviste: Comte et Spencer», Revue de
synthese, XXVI (1950), p. 161.
5. Ibid., pp. 63—64.
6. Herbert Spencer, The Classification of the Sciences: to which are added
reasons for dissenting from the philosophy of M. Comte (N. Y.: Appleton,
1864), pp. 27—48.
7. Herbert Spencer, First Principles [of a New System of Philosophy]
(N. Y.: De Witt Revolving Fund, 1958), p. 531.
8. Pages 323—24 of Jay Rumney, Herbert Spencer's Sociology (New York:
Atlierton Press, 1966), contain a bibliography of «Selected Translations»
of Spencer's works.
9. Elisabett Game de Beaucoudry, La Psychologie et la metaphysique des
idee-forces chez Alfred Fouillee (Paris: Librarie philosophique J. Vrin,
1936), p. 233.
10. W. H. Simon, «Alfred Fouillee», Encyclopedia of Philosophy, III (1967),
p. 215.
11. Alfred Fouillee, Esquisse d'une interpretation du monde («Bibliotheque
de philosophie contemporaine»; Paris; Alcan, 11913).
12. As with Otlet, there is no full account of Henri La Fontaine's life. The
best we have is Georges Lorphevre, Henri La Fontaine et Paul Otlet...
(Bruxelles: Editiones Mundaneum, 1954), 16 pp. It is interesting that
the two men did not share other interests. La Fontaine was a fine
amateur musician, an enthusiast for Wagner, and an alpinist. He was
keenly interested in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in which he long
held office, and in other juridical international organisations.
13. Jean Limpins, Repertoire bibliographique de droit beige, 1819—1945
(Liege: Les Presses Universitaiires, 1947), pp. 5—6.
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