Auguste Comte | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 9 pages of analysis & critique of Auguste Comte.

Auguste Comte | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 9 pages of analysis & critique of Auguste Comte.
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SOURCE: "After Days," in Auguste Comte: Thinker and Lover, Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1928, pp. 196-205.

In the following essay, Style discusses the legacy of Comte's religion of Humanity.

Before Comte died he felt that the religion of Humanity had been proclaimed to the world, and believed that fervent disciples would be found to preach and perfect it. How has his prophecy been fulfilled in the years since his death? As to the date of its systematic acceptance it has certainly failed, but the ablest seaman, while he can tell the date at which a ship should reach its destination, cannot tell what tempests, head winds, undercurrents or other causes may delay the voyage. Had Comte himself lived longer he might have influenced the rapidity of the change, for his voice was beginning to be heard in many lands, the last work he had planned, his volume...

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