Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265234976
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (349 download)
Book Synopsis The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by : Harriet Martineau
Download or read book The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Harriet Martineau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Vol. 1 of 2 In close connection with this was another of my reasons. The supreme dread of every one who cares for the good of nation or race is that men should be adrift for want of an anchorage for their convictions. I believe that no one questions that a very large proportion of our people are now so adrift. With pain and fear, we see that a multitude, who might and should be among the wisest and best of our citizens, are alienated for ever from the kind of faith which sufficed for all in an organic period which has passed away, while no one has presented to them, and they cannot obtain for themselves, any ground of conviction as firm and clear as that which sufficed for our fathers in their day. The moral dangers of such astate of fluctuation as has thus arisen are fearful in the ex treme, whether the transition stage from one order of convictions to another be long or short. The work of M. Comte is unquestion ably the greatest single effort that has been made to obviate this kind of danger; and my deep persuasion is that it will be found to retrieve a vast amount of wandering, of unsound speculation, of listless or reckless doubt, and of moral uncertainty and depression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.