Produced by MFR, Josep Cols Canals, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) THE PHILOSOPHY OF AUGUSTE COMTE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AUGUSTE COMTE BY L. LÉVY-BRUHL _Maître de Conférences de Philosophie à la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Paris, Professeur à l’Ecole libre des Sciences politiques_. _AUTHORISED TRANSLATION_ TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN INTRODUCTION BY FREDERIC HARRISON, M.A. _Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford_ [Colophon] London SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. LIM. PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1903 NOTE BY MR. FREDERIC HARRISON The publication in 1900 of Professor Lévy-Bruhl’s volume _The Philosophy of Auguste Comte_ was an event in the history of the Positive movement. The eminent position in the University of Paris and in recent philosophical history that is held by Prof. Lévy-Bruhl gave great interest and importance to a systematic judgment from his pen such as the present work. The commemorative festival of Comte held this year, when the statue in the Place de la Sorbonne was unveiled by the Minister of War, in presence of an international gathering of delegates from the civilised world, has called fresh attention to the lifework of the philosopher who died 45 years ago. Accordingly, a translation of Professor Lévy-Bruhl’s book was urgently demanded. When I was invited to add to this translation, which I can confidently recommend to students of philosophy, a slight introductory essay, I proposed to use a piece which I wrote on the publication of the French work. It appeared in “The Speaker,” (14 April, 1900;) and, as I see no reason to modify my opinion of this masterly book, I leave it nearly as then written. I may add that the learned Professor was a member of the International Committee with many eminent representatives of the government of France and of the Universities of the Old and New World, which in May last raised the monument to Auguste Comte in Paris.