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Excerpt from Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences: Being an Exposition of the Principles of the Cours De Philosophie Positive of August Comte The following attempt to popularize the leading ideas of the greatest thinker of modem times consists of Two Parts, differently treated. The First Part contains the philosophy of the six Preliminary Sciences (Psychology being included for reasons there adduced); the Second Part contains Social Science, including the philosophy of History. In the former there is, besides an exposition of Comte's views, a large admixture of criticism, illustration, new speculation and fact; in the latter I have scarcely added anything, confining myself to an abridgment of his exposition, preserving his own terms, as far as practicable. The main reason of this difference in treatment lies in the subject itself. It was but just that Comte should be allowed to state in his own way, and without interruption, the principles of a Science he himself created. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.