ADVERTISEMENT. TABLE OF CONTENTS. THIS course of lectures was undertaken at the suggestion of Dr. Congreve, but he is not to be held responsible for any opinions they may contain. It was "not meant for Positivists, but for any who may wish to become acquainted with the leading features of the new philosophical, political, and religious system.” For such persons they were meant, and to such they were delivered. Subsequently they appeared in the "Secular Review." Several friends thought they should be collected and published in a tolerably cheap form for general circulation. Such is my object in republishing them, and no other. Positivists do not receive payment for such things. They feel with the Apostle, "Freely have ye received, freely give." J. K. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE on the aim, scope, meaning, and PAGE SECOND LECTURE: On Auguste Comte's Law of the Three Stages 20 THIRD LECTURE: On Auguste Comte's Hierarchy of the Sciences 39 56 FOURTH LECTURE: On Auguste Comte's Philosophy of Biological Science FIFTH LECTURE: On Man as an Individual and a Social Being SIXTH LECTURE: On Auguste Comte's Law of the Evolution of Human Activity SEVENTH AND CONCLUDING LECTURE: On Man as a Moral Being: Summary |