Mill, who had once corresponded warmly with Comte, assesses his work in two parts. The first credits the Cours de Philosophie Positive with its law of three stages and its scheme of the sciences; the second turns, with growing dismay, to Comte’s later speculations, the Religion of Humanity with its priesthood and calendar of saints.
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