Auguste Comte - System of positive polity

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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

Auguste Comte

Every attempt to refer chemical questions to mathematical doctrines must be considered, now and always, profoundly irrational, as being contrary to the nature of the phenomena.... but if the employment of mathematical analysis should ever become so preponderant in chemistry (an aberration which is happily almost impossible) it would occasion vast and rapid retrogradation....

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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Auguste Comte

No science can be really understood apart from its special history, which again cannot be separated from the general history of Humanity.

Auguste Comte