Note 11 — Chapter VII · RELIGION
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Guyau’s criticisms of Comte’s “Religion of Humanity” in his L’Irreligion de l’Avenir are interesting. “The marriage of positive science and blind sentiment cannot produce religion” (p. 314; Eng. trans., p. 366). “Comtism, which consists of the rites of religion and nothing else, is an attempt to maintain life in the body after the departure of the soul” (p. 307; Eng. trans., p. 359).