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... fication . This naturalistic or agnostic principle is especially identified with " Positivism , " and has been launched on its modern career by Auguste Comte more than by any other thinker . The principle itself is by no vi PREFACE .
... fication . This naturalistic or agnostic principle is especially identified with " Positivism , " and has been launched on its modern career by Auguste Comte more than by any other thinker . The principle itself is by no vi PREFACE .
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... Comte , and that his " Positive Philosophy ' is its most complete expression . Comte had that indomitable enthusiasm , amounting to fanaticism , often possessed by great teachers , which comes from the inrush of new ideas , or ideas ...
... Comte , and that his " Positive Philosophy ' is its most complete expression . Comte had that indomitable enthusiasm , amounting to fanaticism , often possessed by great teachers , which comes from the inrush of new ideas , or ideas ...
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... Comte himself . And there is a certain passionate glow in their expositions , just as there was in those of the ... Comte's own thought and life . The same subject is pursued less directly in the next essay . There have been few more ...
... Comte himself . And there is a certain passionate glow in their expositions , just as there was in those of the ... Comte's own thought and life . The same subject is pursued less directly in the next essay . There have been few more ...
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... have collected the Essays , and ventured thus briefly to trace the line of thought which connects them and gives them any value . ST ANDREWS , April 1884 . CONTENTS . PAGE AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM , 3 THE xiv PREFACE .
... have collected the Essays , and ventured thus briefly to trace the line of thought which connects them and gives them any value . ST ANDREWS , April 1884 . CONTENTS . PAGE AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM , 3 THE xiv PREFACE .
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... MODERN RELIGION OF EXPERIENCE , · 277 NATURAL RELIGION - GOD , 319 PROFESSOR FERRIER AND THE HIGHER PHILOSOPHY , 337 BACK TO KANT ; OR , IMMANUEL KANT AND THE KANTIAN REVIVAL , 377 1 • 1 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM AUTHORITIES . 1.
... MODERN RELIGION OF EXPERIENCE , · 277 NATURAL RELIGION - GOD , 319 PROFESSOR FERRIER AND THE HIGHER PHILOSOPHY , 337 BACK TO KANT ; OR , IMMANUEL KANT AND THE KANTIAN REVIVAL , 377 1 • 1 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM AUTHORITIES . 1.
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...