Produced by Paul Murray, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook.] CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. III. Essay 10: Auguste Comte London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 CONTENTS AUGUSTE COMTE. PAGE Introduction 337 Influence of Saint Simon 340 Marriage 343 Serious illness 345 Official work 347 Completion of _Positive Philosophy_ 349 J. S. Mill 350 Question of Subsidy 352 Money 353 Literary method 354 _Hygiène cérébrale_ 356 Madame de Vaux 356 _Positive Polity_ 358 Death 359 Comte's philosophic consistency 360 Early writings 361 Law of the Three States 363 Classification of sciences 366 The double key of Positive Philosophy 368 Criticism on Comte's classification 369 Sociological conceptions 371 Method 371 Decisive importance of intellectual development 373 Historical elucidations 374 Their value and popularity 374 Social dynamics in the _Positive Polity_ 375 The Positivist system 376 The key to social regeneration 377 The Religion of Humanity 377 The Great Being 378 Remarks on the Religion 378 The worship and discipline 380