the
assertion of the Eleatic stranger in Plato's dialogue.

[19] Mill, History of British India, book ii. chap. iii.

[20] At a somewhat later period M. Comte drew up what he termed a
Positivist Calendar, in which every day was dedicated to some benefactor
of humanity (generally with the addition of a similar but minor
luminary, to be celebrated in the room of his principal each bissextile
year). In this no kind of human eminence, really useful, is omitted,
except that which is merely negative and destructive. On this principle
(which is avowed) the French _philosophes_ as such are excluded, those
only among them being admitted who, like Voltaire and Diderot, had
claims to admission on other grounds: and the Protestant religious
reformers are left out entirely, with the curious exception of George
Fox--who is included, we presume, in consideration of his Peace
principles.

[21] He goes still further and deeper in a subsequent work. "L'art
ramene doucement a la realite les contemplations trop abstraites du
theoricien, tandis qu'il pousse noblement le praticien aux speculations
desinteressees." Systeme de Politique Positive, i. 287.

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2. _Catechisme Positiviste, ou Sommaire Exposition de la Religion
Universelle, en onze Entretiens Systematiques entre une Femme et un
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3. _Appel aux Conservateurs_. Paris: 1855 (brochure).

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Logique Positive, ou Traite de Philosophie Mathematique. 8vo. Paris:
1856.

5. _Auguste Comte et la Philosophie Positive_. Par E. LITTRE. 1 vol.
8vo. Paris: 1863.

6. _Exposition Abregee et Populaire de la Philosophie et de la Religion
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[23] Systeme de Politique Positive, iv. 100.

[24] See Sir John Herschel's Outlines of Astronomy, Sec. 319.

[25] Synthese Subjective, pp. 10, 11.

[26] Synthese Subjective, pp. 11, 12.

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