An earlier critic, however, was not so sanguine. Émile Durkheim rejected Lilienfeld’s ideas on both ideological and methodological grounds. Ideologically, Durkheim objected that one could find in Lilienfeld’s "Gedanken", "the transformationist hypothesis reconciled with the dogma of the Holy Trinity" (Durkheim 1887a: 21 [online version) Methodologically, Durkheim stated that "the sole object of Lilienfeld’s work is to show the analogies between societies and organisms," thus missing the point of seeing "in moral phenomena "sui generis" facts necessitating study in themselves, for themselves, by a special method" (Durkheim 1887b: 16 version, note 17)