The latter portion of this task occupies the Third Book of the _Novum Organon Renovatum_. With regard to the recent succession of German systems of philosophy, I shall add something in a subsequent chapter: and I shall also venture to trace further than I have yet done, the bearing of the philosophy of science upon the theological view of the universe and the moral and religious condition of man. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 235: See Mr. Sharpe's _Essays_.] [Footnote 236: Price's _Essays_, p. 16.] [Footnote 237: P. 18.] [Footnote 238: Reid, _Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind_, iii. 31.] [Footnote 239: Stewart, _Outlines of Moral Phil._ p. 138.] [Footnote 240: Whately, _Polit. Econ._ p. 76.] [Footnote 241: Cousin, _Fragmens Philosophiques_, i. 53.] [Footnote 242: _Ibid._ i. 67.] [Footnote 243: See also the vigorous critique of Locke's _Essay_, by Lemaistre, _Soirées de St. Petersbourg_.] [Footnote 244: Ampère, _Essai_, p. 210.] [Footnote 245: _Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_, Pref. p. xv.] [Footnote 246: The sensational system never acquired in Germany the ascendancy which it obtained in England and France; but I am compelled here to pass over the history of philosophy in Germany, except so far as it affects ourselves.] CHAPTER XXI. FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE SENSATIONAL SCHOOL. M. AUGUSTE COMTE. I shall now take the liberty of noticing the views published by a contemporary writer; not that it forms part of my design to offer any criticism upon the writings of all those who have treated of those subjects on which we are now employed; but because we can more distinctly in this manner point out the contrasts and ultimate tendencies of the several systems of opinion which have come under our survey: and since from among these systems we have endeavoured to extract and secure the portion of truth which remains in each, and to reject the rest, we are led to point out the errors on which our attention is thus fixed, in recent as well as older writers. M. Auguste Comte published in 1830 the first, and in 1835 the second volume of his _Cours de Philosophie Positive_; of which the aim is not much different from that of the present work, since as he states (p. viii.) such a title as the _Philosophy of the Sciences_ would describe a part of his object, and would be inappropriate only by excluding that portion (not yet published) which refers to speculations concerning social relations.