First edition. The result of discussions at the Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales, founded 1895 in Paris, in October of 1897. Tarde’s ‘social laws’ are another example of an attempt at empirical sociology, a scientific law or ‘loi d’uniformisation’ to cover the social phenomena of history and of individuals of the modern towns alike: religion, crimes of passion, health and illness. Tarde’s method, however, appears to be less scientific and more metaphysical in what is sometimes called the English tradition (as opposed to the German), consisting of ‘universal’ ideas such as ‘alpha and omega’ in its consideration of sociological absolutes.