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A GENERAL VIEW OF
POSITIVISM
A GENERAL VIEW
OF POSITIVISM
Translated from the French of
AUGUSTE COMTE
By J. H. BRIDGES, M.B.
Late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
A New Edition, with an Introduction (1908), by
FREDERIC HARRISON
And the Additional Notes in the last French
Edition (Paris, 1907)
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Republic of the West
Order and Progress
A GENERAL VIEW OF
POSITIVISM
Or,
SUMMARY EXPOSITION OF THE
SYSTEM OF THOUGHT
AND LIFE
Adapted to the Great Western Republic, formed of the Five Advanced Nations, the French, Italian, Spanish, British and German, which, since the time of Charlemagne, have always constituted a Political Whole
RÉorganiser, sans dieu ni roi, par le culte systÉmatique de l’HumanitÉ.
Nul n’a droit qu’À faire son devoir.
L’esprit doit toujours Être le ministre du coeur, et jamais son esclave.
Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted.
Man’s only right is to do his duty.
The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.
By
AUGUSTE COMTE
Author of ‘System of Positive Philosophy’
Paris, 1848
