Meditations On the Actual State of Christianity: And On the Attacks Which ...
Meditations On the Actual State of Christianity: And On the Attacks Which ...
Guizot (François)
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Littr^, " made it a duty to speak in public without any reticence, to deduce his positive truths, and to confront them with the conceptions of Theology and of Meta- physics. . . . * Eeligiosity ' is in his eyes not only a weakness, but an avowal of want of power."J " The * positive state ' is that state of the mind * Auguste Comte et la philosopMe positive, by M. Littr^, p. 194. t Ibid., p. 210. X Ibid., pp. 198-255. POSITIVISM. 259 in which it conceives that phenomena are governed by constant ...laws, from which prayer and adoration can demand nothing, but to which intelligence and science may address their demands ; so that by familiarising himself with those laws more and more, and by conforming to them more and more, Man acquires an ever-growing empire over nature and over himself, which empire is the sum of all civilisation. The theological state,' on the contrary, is that state of the mind which con- ceives that phenomena are the results of volition, or, if the social development has arrived at Monotheism, that they are the results of a single, all-wise, and all-powerful will.
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