Auguste Comte

Leading intellectuals and artists who visited SA 's salon included historian Auguste Mignet , philosopher and politician Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire , political writer Alexis de Tocqueville , historian Augustin Thierry , economists Léon Faucher , Frédéric Bastiat

While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin , writers Alfred de Vigny , Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire , and Léon de Wailly , Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte , and...

Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...