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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The principal texts include J. H. Bridges, Illustrations of
Positivism
(London, 1915); Richard Congreve, Essays: Polit-
ical, Social, and Religious,
3 vols. (London, 1874-1900);
Frederic Harrison, Autobiographic Memoirs, 2 vols. (London,
1911); Émile Littré, Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive
(Paris, 1864); and the following works of Auguste Comte:
Appeal to Conservatives (London, 1889), The Catechism of
Positive Religion
(London, 1858), Cours de philosophie posi-
tive,
6 vols. (Paris, 1830-42) or the abridged translation The
Positive Philosophy,
3 vols. (London, 1896), System of Posi-
tive Polity,
4 vols. (London, 1875-77), the Introduction of
which has been published separately as A General View
of Positivism
(London, 1865; various reprints). Consult:
Isaiah Berlin, Historical Inevitability (London, 1954); D. G.
Charlton, Positivist Thought in France during the Second
Empire, 1852-1870
(Oxford, 1959), and Secular Religions in
France, 1815-1870
(Oxford, 1963); Henri Gouhier, La
jeunesse d'Auguste Comte et la formation du positivisme,

3 vols. (Paris, 1933-41), and La vie d'Auguste Comte (Paris,
1931); L. Lévy-Bruhl, The Philosophy of Auguste Comte
(London, 1903); J. E. McGee, A Crusade for Humanity
(London, 1931); F. E. Manuel, The Prophets of Paris
(Cambridge, Mass., 1962); J. S. Mill, Auguste Comte and
Positivism
(London, 1866); W. M. Simon, European Positiv-
ism in the Nineteenth Century
(Ithaca, 1963), and “The 'Two
Cultures' in Nineteenth-Century France: Victor Cousin and
Auguste Comte,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 26 (1965),
45-58.

WALTER SIMON

[See also Classification of the Sciences; Enlightenment;
Historicism; Positivism in Latin America; Progress.]