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THESE six essays, written by Comte between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one, appeared in vol. iv. of the “Positive Polity,” published in 1877. Their special interest is that they prove the unity of their author's life-work—the coherency and consistency of his scientific philosophy and his social polity—as against the view of Littre, that the two are disparate, the later work a backsliding from the principles of the earlier.
Early Essays on Social Philosophy.
Translated from the French of Auguste Comte by H. D. Hutton. A new edition with additional notes, and with an introduction by Frederic Harrison. Pp. 352. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.) Price 1s. net.
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Early Essays on Social Philosophy . Nature 87, 346 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087346b0
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