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... writings if we would study the springs of the movement , and understand something of the hold which it has taken of our age . Moreover , it is to Comte's professed followers rather 1 See pp . 34 , 428 . 1 than others that we must look ...
... writings if we would study the springs of the movement , and understand something of the hold which it has taken of our age . Moreover , it is to Comte's professed followers rather 1 See pp . 34 , 428 . 1 than others that we must look ...
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... the ' Religion of Humanity ' ; a keen naturalism , which crops out more or less in all his writings , and a certain native light- 1 ness of temperament , have proved too powerful for the 6 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... the ' Religion of Humanity ' ; a keen naturalism , which crops out more or less in all his writings , and a certain native light- 1 ness of temperament , have proved too powerful for the 6 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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... he had really an eminent faculty - the rational and historic sequence of scientific ideas . of scientific ideas . In all his later writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity 8 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... he had really an eminent faculty - the rational and historic sequence of scientific ideas . of scientific ideas . In all his later writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity 8 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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John Tulloch. writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity with them , and the rich though broken lights of truth which they reveal amidst masses of astound- ing self - assertion and even downright nonsense , as well as ...
John Tulloch. writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity with them , and the rich though broken lights of truth which they reveal amidst masses of astound- ing self - assertion and even downright nonsense , as well as ...
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... writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene , the obligation of reading nothing whatever bearing on my subject except such new scientific discoveries as I deemed useful - an obligation which , if sometimes ...
... writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene , the obligation of reading nothing whatever bearing on my subject except such new scientific discoveries as I deemed useful - an obligation which , if sometimes ...
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argument Aristotle Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Descartes Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh Edward Caird essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less Littré LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism post 8vo principle Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Third Edition Thorndale thought tion true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings