THE CATECHISM

OF

POSITIVE RELIGION.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF

(Marie François Xaver)
AUGUSTE COMTE,

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ORDER AND PROGRESS.

THE

CATECHISM OF POSITIVISM;

ов,

Summary Exposition

OF

THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION.

IN THIRTEEN SYSTEMATIC CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A WOMAN AND A PRIEST OF HUMANITY.

By AUGUSTE COMTE,

AUTHOR OF "THE SYSTEM OF POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY," AND OF
"THE SYSTEM OF POSITIVE POLITICS."

Love as our principle,
Order as our basis,

Progress as our end.

VII. The order of the External World—

Inorganic Matter, Life

VIII. Man-first, as a Social, secondly,

as a Moral Being

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