Author:
Hawkins, Richmond Laurin 1878-
Imprint:Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1936.
Descriptionvii, 147 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. AUGUSTE COMTE AND THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1852: 1. The land of liberty and equality -- 2. Comte and the Protestant theologians of New England -- 3. John Henry Young's translation of Émile Littré's De La Philosophie Positive -- 4. Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka -- Seba Smith's New Elements of Geometry -- William Mitchell Gillespie's The Philosophy of Mathematics -- 5. James O'Connell's Vestiges of Civilization -- 6. Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace, and Julia Ward Howe -- II. GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES: 1. "Philosophy and faith": a review of Horace Greeley's Hints Toward Reforms -- 2. "Faith and science" -- Comte's positive philosophy -- Horace Binney Wallace's "Comte's Philosophy" -- Holmes's rejoinder -- 3. "Instauratio Nova : Auguste Comte" -- 4. "Spirit of positivism" -- 5. "The positive religion: or, the religion of humanity" -- Conclusion -- III. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF AUGUSTE COMTE AND GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
