...entity." _ . . In the final, the positive state, the mind has Tliir.1 »t«go. . i-iAnii .Lgiven over me vain search after Absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and .thc.causcs of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable...

...is, at this stage, a mere reference of each to its proper entity. ' In the final, the Positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute...the origin and destination of the universe, and the cause of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, that is, their invariable relations...

...this stage, is the mere reference of each to its proper entity.* "In the final, the Positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute...universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself * We understand the author to mean by " proper entity" just what we all mean by those forces, powers,...

...inherent in all beings, and capable of producing all phenomena. " In the final, the Positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute...observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge." Mr. Lewes follows him : " A few sentences will suffice to indicate the nature of the three stages :...

...requires stronger meat, and this it finds in positivism. Now the mind gives over the vain search after the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself solely to their statistics, or in other words, their laws, that is, their invariable relations of succession...

...a mere reference of each to its proper entity. Third Stage. In the final — the positive state — the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destiny of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to a study of their laws ;...

...universe. 'In the final stage of its history,' says Cornte, the coryphaeus of this school, ' the human mind has given over the vain search after absolute...understood when we speak of an explanation of facts U simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts, the number...

...positivism be true. The essential principle of positivism is this : that ' in the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute...invariable relations of succession and resemblance.' ' The intervention of God in human things is, by this philosophy, absolutely excluded as a notion which...

...stubbornly rejects the attempt of the " Positive Philosophy " to impose on it the duty of " giving over the vain search after Absolute notions, the origin...and destination of the Universe, and the causes of Phenomena."4 There is a truer philosophy after all in the old description of the prerogative of human...

...In ,,the final, the Positive^state, the mind has -given -over the vain search after absolutenotions, the origin and destination of the universe and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to, their- laws; that -is, their -invariable ,-relations .of . succession. and-resemblancc. Reasoning and,...