Note 40 — THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION OF COMTE.
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Pol. Pos. i. p. 106. In my first article (Contemporary Review for May, p. 211) I inadvertently spoke of the hierarchical arrangement of society as extending to the proletariate. This is inaccurate, for Comte rather dwells on their "homogeneity," and seeks to obliterate all distinctions of rank among them, only allowing to the engineers a kind of "fraternal ascendancy." Pol. Pos. iv. p. 307.