Wace's attack, but at the same time bantered Mr. Frederic Harrison's pretensions on behalf of Positivism at the expense alike of Christianity and Agnosticism.
And conversely, the speculative positivismof Ardigo remained throughout its development a stranger to the immediate sources of experimental research, and adhered strictly to the field of pure philosophy.
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Positivism in Italy of Comte of Comte's followers in England in Sweden, Brazil, and Chili in Germany Prantl Prel, K.
It is quite true that the reaction against Positivism is making itself felt among our literary fellow-students, and that they, like others, are haunted by the idea of that famous bankruptcy of science.
Moreover, it was scientific Positivism that he clung to; in his hatred of all mysticism he would have naught to do with the fantastic religious leanings of Comte in his last years.
Indeed, I am by no means sure whether the doctrine as I received it is orthodox Positivism at all.
I must remember that it was nothing new and nothing peculiar to Positivism for men to adore women to the point even of idolatry.
Of course, Positivism claiming to be a creed of demonstration, not of faith, Régnier did not ask me to receive this proposition as his mere statement, but proceeded to establish its reasonableness by logic.
The rational demonstration of the truth of this system is sought in the course of history, which is claimed to prove Positivism the finality of social evolution.
From this dualistic Positivism he predicts the rise of a new Theology.
But common life has its Positivism, as well as its Chemistry; and the Positivism of common life is everywhere.
The student of Positivism knows how this fierce invective was echoed and re-echoed by Comte and his followers.
As author of a Lecture on Positivism in 1871, I cannot but be gratified to perceive that Mr. Gladstone's views of Comte's character and system are coincident with my own.
He seems to grant or even to affirm that if Positivism is wrong, Criticism is right, and that, strictly speaking, metaphysic is not a science.
But since the Positivismof Auguste Comte, too little versed in metaphysical knowledge to discuss it authoritatively, there have arisen two important schools, the one of association, the other of evolution.
The criticism of Positivism has taught us that there is no knowledge possible without a priori elements--that is to say, without laws inherent in thought, which impose themselves upon phenomena, so as to constitute veritable knowledge.
But if there is no spark of worship-worthy divinity in the individual twigs of humanity, whence comes that godlike splendour which the Moses of Positivism fondly imagines to pervade the whole bush.
Mr. Frederic Harrison pitches into Agnosticism with his usual vigor, and holds out Positivism as the only system which can satisfy the sceptic and the religionist.
Parsons and Agnostics will eventually kiss each other, like righteousness and peace in the text, and the then existing High Priest of Positivism will say, "Humanity bless you, my children.
Every religion the world has ever seen has been false, but religion itself is imperishable, and Positivism has found the true solution of the eternal problem.
Congreve is delivering on Positivism in Bouverie Street.
The attempt of Positivism to confine all human knowledge to the observation and classification of phenomena, and arrest and foreclose all inquiry as to causes, efficient, final, and ultimate, is simply futile and absurd.
But if there is no spark of worship-worthy divinity in the individual twigs of humanity, whence comes that godlike splendour which the Moses of Positivism fondly imagines to pervade the whole bush?
Positivism in the scientific sense cannot be committed to any one man's scheme for regulating society and conserving "cultus"; and Comte's was merely one of the many evoked in France by the memory of an age of revolutions.
There is a persistence about the denial of any knowledge whatsoever that goes beyond external facts, which ill comports with the pretensions of positivism to be a philosophy.
Perhaps it was the course of his experience which made this irrational positivism natural.
Positivism was bitterly hostile to Christianity, though, in the mind of Comte himself and of a few others, it produced a curious substitute, possessing many of the marks of Roman Catholicism.
Meantime, after positivism was buried and agnosticism dead, a thing was achieved for which Comte himself laid the foundation and in which Spencer as he grew older was ever more deeply interested.
In the light of his own inheritance his ecclesiastical positivism seems strange.
In all religious systems except Buddhism and Positivism the personality of the ultimate ground of the world is looked on as a necessary datum.
Positivism can offer us no symbol of this kind; its “Great Fetich” is genuinely a fetich, and appropriate for primitive peoples only.
Hence, neither Pantheism nor Positivism is troubled to explain the relation of the One to the Many; for the former acknowledges only the One, and the latter acknowledges only the Many.
Practical positivism has obliterated the virtues of a chivalrous and feudal past; but science has not yet been born.
Science was born, and the warfare between scientificpositivism and religious metaphysic was declared.
Neither traditionalism nor the theological positivism of Duns Scotus sufficed for it; it sought to rationalize itself.
Most of the facts labelled as such by Positivism were really only fragments of facts.
He was an absolute positivist; his positivism did not make him self-assertive nor peremptory; on the contrary, it oppressed him.
The positivism which the Russian 'intellectuals' have adopted by way of imitation is rejected by their feelings, their conscience, and their will; it is an artificial monument that is set up in their minds only.
This moral unity is indeed a religious unity and a Christian unity; this positivism is a Christian positivism.
The American religion may be called a Christian positivism or a positive Christianity.
American positivism is only a Christianity which has evolved.
Positivism began forthwith to be attacked by neo-idealism.
It is therefore a spiritual conception, itself also a result of the general reaction of the Century against the languid and materialistic positivism of the Eighteenth Century.
McCosh came out, in reply, with his volume on "Positivism and Christianity.
Indeed, he often said that while intellectually Positivism was in the air, as a social doctrine it was too far in advance of the present age to become popular.
Positivism did all this for Mr. Croly, so far as anything could, and he became one of its most eager and devoted adherents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "positivism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
