The Sacred Formula Of Positivism: Love As

The Dead Govern The Living.

Know Yourself To Improve Yourself.

The Only Real Life Is The Collective Life Of The Race; Individual Life Has No Existence Except As An Abstraction.

After Montesquieu, The Next Great Addition To Sociology (which Is The Term I May Be Allowed To Invent To Designate Social Physics) Was Made By Condorcet, Proceeding On The Views Suggested By His Illustrious Friend Turgot.

The Law Is This: That Each Of Our Leading Conceptions-each Branch Of Our Knowledge-passes Successively Through Three Different Theoretical Conditions: The Theological, Or Fictitious: The Metaphysical, Or Abstract; And The Scientific, Or Positive.