maintaining those conditions to free action, which make such spontaneous co-operation possible—one in which individual life will thus be pushed to the greatest extent consistent with social life; and in which social life will have no other end than to maintain the completest sphere for individual life. M. Comte, not including in his I conceive, on the other hand, philosophy the consciousness of that the object of religious a cause manifested to us in all sentiment will ever continue phenomena, and yet holding that to be, that which it has ever there must be a religion, which been—the unknown source of must have an object, takes for his things. While the _forms_ under object—Humanity. “This Collective which men are conscious of the Life (of Society) is in Comte’s unknown source of things, may system the _Être Suprême_; the fade away, the _substance_ of only one we can _know_ therefore the consciousness is permanent. the only one we can worship.” Beginning with causal agents conceived as imperfectly known; progressing to causal agents conceived as less known and less knowable; and coming at last to a universal causal agent posited as not to be known at all; the religious sentiment must ever continue to occupy itself with this universal causal agent. Having in the course of evolution come to have for its object of contemplation the Infinite Unknowable, the religious sentiment can never again (unless by retrogression) take a Finite Knowable, like Humanity, for its object of contemplation.