Note 19 — REASONS FOR DISSENTING FROM THE PHILOSOPHY OF M. COMTE.

In his work, Auguste Comte et la Philosophie Positive (1863), M. Littré defending the Comtean clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the sciences from the criticism I made upon it in the “Genesis of Science,” deals with me wholly as an antagonist. The chapter he devotes to his reply, opens by placing me in direct opposition to the English adherents of Comte, named in the preceding chapter.