Note 188-1 — Chapter V · THE MYTH AND THE MYTHICAL CYCLES.
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No one has seen the error here pointed out, and its injurious results on thought, more clearly than Comte himself. He is emphatic in condemning “le tendance involontaire à constituer l’unité spéculative par l’ascendant universel des plus grossières contemplations numérique, geométrique ou mécaniques.” Systême de Politique Positive; Tome I., p. 51. But he was too biassed to apply this warning to Christian thought. The conception of the Universe in the logic of Professor De Morgan and Boole is an example of speculative unity.