The marked limitations of this book are well recognized by the author himself, in fact, his modesty is on occasions all too insistent. Such limitations, however, are inherent in the method of attack upon politicosocial problems by the statistical technique, and any criticism of Dr. Rice's work may well set forth from the problem of method itself rather than from a detailed appraisal of his special results, although even in the space of a review the latter must be considered.

The belief in the value of quantitative methods has become more than fashionable among American social scientists; it is almost a fetish. Perhaps