I turn now, as is our custom, to review the work of the year under its three-fold heads of Cult, Education, Politics. You will see that I avoid the word Worship, because worship is so often misunderstood; and because it wholly fails to convey the meaning of the Positivist _cultus_, or stimulus of the noblest emotions of man. Worship is in no way a translation of Comte’s word _culte_. In French we can talk of the _culte des mères_, or the _culte des morts_, or the _culte des enfants_, or the _culte de l’Art_. We cannot in English talk of _worshipping_ our mothers, or _worshipping_ our dead friends, or _worshipping_ children, or _worshipping_ art; or, if we use the words, we do not mean the same thing. Comte has suffered deeply by being crudely translated into English phrases, by people who did not see that the same phrase in English means something different. Now his _culte de l’Humanité_ does not mean what Englishmen understand by the worship of Humanity: _i.e._, they are apt to fancy, kneeling down and praying to Humanity, or singing a hymn to Humanity. By _culte de l’Humanité_ is meant, deepening our sense of gratitude and regard for the human race and its living or dead organs. And everything which does this is _cult_, though it may not be what we call in English worship. So _service_ is a word I avoid; because the service of Humanity consists in the thousand ways in which we fulfil our social duties, and not in uttering exclamations which may or may not lead to anything in conduct, and which we have no reason to suppose are heard by any one, or affect any one outside the room where they are uttered. The commemoration of a great man such as William the Silent or Corneille is _cult_, though we do not worship him; the solemn delight in a piece of music in such a spirit is _cult_, though it is not _worship_, or _service_, in the modern English sense of these words. The ceremony of interring a dead friend, or naming a child is _cult_, though we do not worship our dead friend, nor do we worship the baby when brought for presentation. Cult, as we understand it, is a process that concerns the person or persons who worship, not the being worshipped. Whatever stimulates the sense of social duty and kindles the noblest emotions, whether by a mere historical lecture, or a grand piece of music, or by a solemn act, or by some expression of emotion—this is cult.