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A stronger reason was that M. Comte's work, in its original form, does no justice to its importance, even in France; and much less tn England. It is in the form of lectures, the delivery of which was Spread over a long course of years; and this extension of time ne cessitated an amount of recapitulation very injurious to its interest and philosophical aspect. M. Comte's style is singular. It is at the same time rich and diffuse. Every sentence is full fraught with meaning; yet it is overloaded with words. His scrupulous hon esty leads him to guard his enunciations with epithets so constantly repeated, that though, to his own mind, they are necessary in each individual instance, they become wearisome, especially toward the end of his work, and lose their effect by constant repetition. This practice, which might be strength in a series of instructions spread over twenty years, becomes weakness when those instructions are presented as a whole; and it appeared to me worth while to con dense his work, if I undertook nothing more, in order to divest it of the disadvantages arising from redundancy alone. My belief is that thus, if nothing more were done, it might be brought before the minds of many who would be deterred from the study of it by its bulk. What I have given in this volume occupies in the origi nal six volumes averaging nearly' eight hundred pages: and yet I believe it will be found that nothing essential to either statement or illustration is omitted.
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This is a condensed English translation, first published in 1853, of the French philosopher Auguste Comte's controversial work. It presents Comte's influential 'doctrine' of positivism, which promoted personal and public ethics based no longer on metaphysics but on strict scientific method, and anticipated twentieth-century secular humanism.
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Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) authored Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838), which are considered to be major analyses of American life.
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