Auguste Comte and the United States (1816-1853) (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages, Vol. 11)

vii, 147 pp. CONTENTS: Auguste Comte and the United States Before 1852: The Land of Liberty and Equality - Comte and the Protestant Theologians of New England - John Henry Young's Translation of Emile Littre's De la Philosophie Positive - Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka--Seba Smith's New Elements of Geometry--William Mitchell Gillespie's The Philosophy of Mathematics - James O'Connell's Vestiges of Civilization - Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace, and Julia Ward Howe; George Frederick Holmes: "Philosophy and Faith"--A Review of Horace Greeley's Hints Towards Reforms - "Faith and Science--Comte's Positive Philosophy"--Horace Binney Wallace's "Comte's Philosophy"--Holmes's Rejoinder - "Instauratio Nova--Auguste Comte" - "Spirit of Positivism" - "The Positive Religion: or, The Religion of Humanity" - Conclusion; The Correspondence of Auguste Comte and George Frederick Holmes; Index of Names.