Editorial note — Translated from Le Correspondant POSITIVISM. A. COMTE, LITTRÉ, H. TAINE.

[Footnote 108: M. de Chalambert forgets to add that the cause of this rapture was precisely the attempt of Saint-Simon, after having failed to kill himself, to found a new religion, which he called Nouveau Christianisme, and of which the positive religion professed afterwards by M. Comte is only a manifest plagiarism.—TRANSLATOR]

[Footnote 109: A useless labor, for he might have learned it from that depraved juggler, Saint-Simon, who had reached it as early as 1804. Auguste Comte never made any advance on his master, but to the last remained rather behind him. With all his pretensions to originality, he was never anything more than the disciple of Saint-Simon.—TRANSLATOR.]