...both in the facts of our organization and in our historical experience. The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions — each branch of...knowledge — passes successively through three different theoretical condititions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract ; and the...

...Three Stages of Humanity, the Theological, the Metaphysical and the Positive. M. Comte says : " That each of our leading conceptions — each branch of...knowledge — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Thcological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific,...

...both in the facts of our organization and in our historical experience. 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...

...M. Auguste Comte is based upon the discovery of what he calls the law of human progress, viz.: "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,...

...proof, both in the facts of our organisation and in our historical experience. 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...

...eye. CUD WE may fairly apply to the subject of Sleep tlie well-known theory of Auguste Comte, that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : first, the theological; secondly, the metaphysical; and thirdly, the positive...

...imagined of what the world has heard so much about as Comte's law of the three states — viz., that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions, the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive ; the mind, in the first,...

...It,will.be best, to give .the leading idea.of ,the system in Comte's own- words. He,, says : — ' " Each , of , our ^leading . conceptions — each, branch....passes. successively . , through , three, different, theoretical conditions : JI the Theological or, fictitious, the Metaphysical, . or, abstract, and....

...Comte's theory, or as he styles it " great fundamental law of human intelligence," is, 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...

...proof, both in the facts of our organisation and in our historical experience. 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...