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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Forbin-Janson, Charles Auguste Marie Joseph, Comte
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Auguste Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut de La Billarderie
• Auguste Comte
• Auguste Hilarion, Comte de Keratry
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Comte Auguste
• Forbin-Janson, Charles Auguste Marie Joseph, Comte de
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Bourmont, Louis Auguste Victor, Comte de
• Comte, Auguste
• Flahault de La Billarderie, Auguste Charles Joseph, Comte de
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Comte de Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson
• Henri-Auguste-Georges du Vergier, Comte de la Rochejacquelein

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).