Auguste Comte

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Standard Name: Comte, Auguste
The so-called "Dutch portrait" of Auguste Comte, taken from a daguerreotype of 1849 which shows him half-length, seated, facing the viewer.

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Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM published The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte , Freely Translated and Condensed; it appeared in two volumes from John Chapman .
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
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Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 385
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
HM credits Comte in her preface with an immense influence on recent intellectual developments: his ideas, she writes, are tacitly recognised as the foundation of all that is systematic in our knowledge.
Comte, Auguste. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Translator Martineau, Harriet, Peter Eckler, 1893.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text John Stuart Mill
In part, the book focuses on the philosophy of Auguste Comte .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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