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Comte, Auguste
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or A French philosopher, born at Montpellier, the founder of Positivism (q. v .); enough to say here, it consisted of a new arrangement of the sciences into Abstract and Concrete, and a new law of historical evolution in science from a theological through a metaphysical to a positive stage, which last is the ultimate and crowning and alone legitimate method, that is, observation of phenomena and their sequence; Comte was first a disciple of St. Simon, but he quarrelled with him; commenced a "Cours de Philosophie Positive" of his own, in six vols.; but finding it defective on the moral side, he instituted a worship of humanity, and gave himself out as the chief priest of a new religion, a very different thing from Carlyle's hero-worship (1795-1857).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Comte, Auguste'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/comte-auguste.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
