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Positive Philosophy

the system of philosophy outlined by Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in his "Philosophie Positive," the sixth and last volume of which was published in 1842. It is the outcome of the Law of the Three Stages and is based on the positive sciences, taken in the following series: mathe- POSITIVE SOCIETY POSTAGE STAMPS matics (number, geometry, mechanics), (Mark v: 2-20). Jesus, when on earth, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and sociology. It relinquishes attempts to transcend the sphere of experience, and seeks to establish by observation and to transcend the sphere e of experience, and seeks to establish by observation and induction laws or constant relations, and resigns iself to ignorance of the agents.

In the opinion of its founder it is capable of being developed into a religion and a polity .