nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.