FOOTNOTES1The establishment of this great principle is the most important result of mySystem of Positive Philosophy. This work was published 1830–1842, with the title ofCourse of Positive Philosophy, because it was based upon a course of lectures delivered 1826–1829. But since that time I have always given it the more appropriate name of System. Should the work reach a second edition, the correction will be made formally: meanwhile, this will, I hope, remove all misconception on the subject.2[Comte afterwards added a seventh science, Ethics, (see vol. ii ofSystem of Positive Polity).]3[See Cabanis,Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme, Vememoire, where he speaks of ‘les restes de l’esprit de chevalerie, fruit ridicule de l’odieuse féodalité.’]4Philosophy—theloveof wisdom.5[Written in 1848.]6On reconsideration, Comte saw fit to withdraw this proposal. SeePositive Polity, vol. iv, ch. 5, p. 351.7[Clotilde de Vaux, seeTestament d’Auguste Comte, p. 550].8This law was introduced by Royer-Collard. It forbids discussion of the private affairs of public men.9[Testament d’Auguste Comte, p. 556].10[This storyLucieis republished in Vol. i ofSystem of Positive Polity.]11Toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considérée comme un même homme qui subsiste toujours et qui apprend continuellement.—Pascal,Pensées, Part I, Art. I. [The whole succession of men during the course of so many centuries should be considered as one Man ever living and constantly learning.]12[SeeThe Positivist Calendar, edited by H. G. Jones (W. Reeves, 1905).]13[Tableau Historique des progrès de l’Esprit Humain, Paris, 1900.]14[The Republic of 1848.]15[This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, July 1889; see also an article and a document published by M. Pierre Laffitte in the same review in January, 1890.]16[This committee was formed in 1903.]17This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, September, 1885.18The relative position here assigned to England and Germany is reversed in the fourth volume of thePolitique Positive.
FOOTNOTES1The establishment of this great principle is the most important result of mySystem of Positive Philosophy. This work was published 1830–1842, with the title ofCourse of Positive Philosophy, because it was based upon a course of lectures delivered 1826–1829. But since that time I have always given it the more appropriate name of System. Should the work reach a second edition, the correction will be made formally: meanwhile, this will, I hope, remove all misconception on the subject.2[Comte afterwards added a seventh science, Ethics, (see vol. ii ofSystem of Positive Polity).]3[See Cabanis,Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme, Vememoire, where he speaks of ‘les restes de l’esprit de chevalerie, fruit ridicule de l’odieuse féodalité.’]4Philosophy—theloveof wisdom.5[Written in 1848.]6On reconsideration, Comte saw fit to withdraw this proposal. SeePositive Polity, vol. iv, ch. 5, p. 351.7[Clotilde de Vaux, seeTestament d’Auguste Comte, p. 550].8This law was introduced by Royer-Collard. It forbids discussion of the private affairs of public men.9[Testament d’Auguste Comte, p. 556].10[This storyLucieis republished in Vol. i ofSystem of Positive Polity.]11Toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considérée comme un même homme qui subsiste toujours et qui apprend continuellement.—Pascal,Pensées, Part I, Art. I. [The whole succession of men during the course of so many centuries should be considered as one Man ever living and constantly learning.]12[SeeThe Positivist Calendar, edited by H. G. Jones (W. Reeves, 1905).]13[Tableau Historique des progrès de l’Esprit Humain, Paris, 1900.]14[The Republic of 1848.]15[This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, July 1889; see also an article and a document published by M. Pierre Laffitte in the same review in January, 1890.]16[This committee was formed in 1903.]17This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, September, 1885.18The relative position here assigned to England and Germany is reversed in the fourth volume of thePolitique Positive.
1The establishment of this great principle is the most important result of mySystem of Positive Philosophy. This work was published 1830–1842, with the title ofCourse of Positive Philosophy, because it was based upon a course of lectures delivered 1826–1829. But since that time I have always given it the more appropriate name of System. Should the work reach a second edition, the correction will be made formally: meanwhile, this will, I hope, remove all misconception on the subject.
1The establishment of this great principle is the most important result of mySystem of Positive Philosophy. This work was published 1830–1842, with the title ofCourse of Positive Philosophy, because it was based upon a course of lectures delivered 1826–1829. But since that time I have always given it the more appropriate name of System. Should the work reach a second edition, the correction will be made formally: meanwhile, this will, I hope, remove all misconception on the subject.
2[Comte afterwards added a seventh science, Ethics, (see vol. ii ofSystem of Positive Polity).]
2[Comte afterwards added a seventh science, Ethics, (see vol. ii ofSystem of Positive Polity).]
3[See Cabanis,Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme, Vememoire, where he speaks of ‘les restes de l’esprit de chevalerie, fruit ridicule de l’odieuse féodalité.’]
3[See Cabanis,Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme, Vememoire, where he speaks of ‘les restes de l’esprit de chevalerie, fruit ridicule de l’odieuse féodalité.’]
4Philosophy—theloveof wisdom.
4Philosophy—theloveof wisdom.
5[Written in 1848.]
5[Written in 1848.]
6On reconsideration, Comte saw fit to withdraw this proposal. SeePositive Polity, vol. iv, ch. 5, p. 351.
6On reconsideration, Comte saw fit to withdraw this proposal. SeePositive Polity, vol. iv, ch. 5, p. 351.
7[Clotilde de Vaux, seeTestament d’Auguste Comte, p. 550].
7[Clotilde de Vaux, seeTestament d’Auguste Comte, p. 550].
8This law was introduced by Royer-Collard. It forbids discussion of the private affairs of public men.
8This law was introduced by Royer-Collard. It forbids discussion of the private affairs of public men.
9[Testament d’Auguste Comte, p. 556].
9[Testament d’Auguste Comte, p. 556].
10[This storyLucieis republished in Vol. i ofSystem of Positive Polity.]
10[This storyLucieis republished in Vol. i ofSystem of Positive Polity.]
11Toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considérée comme un même homme qui subsiste toujours et qui apprend continuellement.—Pascal,Pensées, Part I, Art. I. [The whole succession of men during the course of so many centuries should be considered as one Man ever living and constantly learning.]
11Toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considérée comme un même homme qui subsiste toujours et qui apprend continuellement.—Pascal,Pensées, Part I, Art. I. [The whole succession of men during the course of so many centuries should be considered as one Man ever living and constantly learning.]
12[SeeThe Positivist Calendar, edited by H. G. Jones (W. Reeves, 1905).]
12[SeeThe Positivist Calendar, edited by H. G. Jones (W. Reeves, 1905).]
13[Tableau Historique des progrès de l’Esprit Humain, Paris, 1900.]
13[Tableau Historique des progrès de l’Esprit Humain, Paris, 1900.]
14[The Republic of 1848.]
14[The Republic of 1848.]
15[This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, July 1889; see also an article and a document published by M. Pierre Laffitte in the same review in January, 1890.]
15[This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, July 1889; see also an article and a document published by M. Pierre Laffitte in the same review in January, 1890.]
16[This committee was formed in 1903.]
16[This committee was formed in 1903.]
17This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, September, 1885.
17This report was republished inRevue Occidentale, September, 1885.
18The relative position here assigned to England and Germany is reversed in the fourth volume of thePolitique Positive.
18The relative position here assigned to England and Germany is reversed in the fourth volume of thePolitique Positive.