To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.