Note 1031 — Chapter IV · : DOCTRINES THAT OWE THEIR INSPIRATION TO CHRISTIANITY
R. (Robert) Richards translation
It was no Christian Socialist, but Auguste Comte, the founder of Positivism, who wrote: “The original equality of men is not a doctrine founded simply upon the observation of social facts. It was only clearly affirmed for the first time by Christianity.” (Traité de Politique, vol. i, p. 407.)