Auguste Comte

Were it not for the scarcity of time now at my disposal, and the still greater failing in the poor means of expressing myself, I would give you another reason which, at the present moment, holds my soul in mourning and my heart closed to all sentiment which has not the bitterness of the deepest pain.

An enormous succession of unpardonable errors, because they were committed in our days when the doctrine of Auguste Comte is sufficiently propagated to render the sentiment of universal fraternity familiar to the most accomplished peoples of the West, has resulted in hurling the leading nations of humanity against one another, and has kept them for more than one year plunged in the floods of bloodshed which snatch off, pick to pieces, and submerge the most delicate and beautiful qualities of our civilization, namely, gentility to women, kindness to little children, the aged and the sick, and that sentiment of individual dignity which restrains one from committing violence against persons and things, lest one should diminish in one's own eyes the esteem and respect which is due to one's self-respect.

Immersed in the sea of anguish which flows from the heart of humanity, the loving mother, who sees her children tearing themselves to pieces with the assistance of the very resources which she had created and given to them, prompted by the noble ambition of placing them above the sorry solicitings of private animality, I feel pained at the frailty of my strength which does not permit me to contribute toward the work of those who are using their efforts in the direction of mitigating the devastations of this horrible catastrophe, other than in accompanying them with expressions of my gratitude and in supplicating destiny to afford them the greatest facilities capable of enabling them to attain the object to which they have devoted themselves.

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Were it not for the scarcity of time now at my disposal, and the still greater failing in the poor means of expressing myself, I would give you another reason which, at the present moment, holds my soul in mourning and my heart closed to all sentiment which has not the bitterness of the deepest pain.

An enormous succession of unpardonable errors, because they were committed in our days when the doctrine of Auguste Comte is sufficiently propagated to render the sentiment of universal fraternity familiar to the most accomplished peoples of the West, has resulted in hurling the leading nations of humanity against one another, and has kept them for more than one year plunged in the floods of bloodshed which snatch off, pick to pieces, and submerge the most delicate and beautiful qualities of our civilization, namely gentility to women, kindness to little children, the aged and the sick, and that sentiment of individual dignity which restrains one from committing violence against persons and things, lest one should diminish in one's own eyes the esteem and respect which is due to one's self-respect.

Immersed in the sea of anguish which flows from the heart of humanity, the loving mother, who sees her children tearing themselves to pieces with the assistance of the very resources which she had created and given to them, prompted by the noble ambition of placing them above the sorry solicitings of private animality, I feel pained at the frailty of my strength which does not permit me to contribute toward the work of those who are using their efforts in the direction of mitigating the devastations of this horrible catastrophe, other than in accompanying them with expressions of my gratitude and in supplicating destiny to afford them the greatest facilities capable of enabling them to attain the object to which they have devoted themselves.

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He desired to offer, besides this, an explanation of these phenomena.

How did they come to be, and how do they continue to exist? to provide this explanation spencer postulated the existence of an unknown power which is at once the origin and the sustaining ground of everything this power he regarded as lying quite out of range not only of the human senses but of the human intellect it was not only unknown but unknowable this celebrated doctrine of the unknowable is not the least interesting or important part of spenser's system and it is perhaps more germane than any other speculation of his to our present subject as this terra incognita was allotted by him to religion as its peculiar province he hoped that the undisputed possession and occupation by religion of this territory might put an end to its perpetual conflict with science and substitute for this a reasonable if not cordial understanding science might contentedly appropriate the sphere of the knowable and leave to religion the undefined and perhaps infinite area of the unknowable and he hoped this division of labour would be both fruitful and permanent the victorian agnostics through this doctrine of the unknowable herbert spencer was the father of that form of belief or disbelief which was pertinently named agnosticism by the most celebrated of its exponents huxley this combination of positivism in science with agnosticism in religion and philosophy became highly popular in a wide circle in england during the last third of the nineteenth century especially among the scientifically educated leslie stephen with the pride of a disciple and the pardonable zeal of a propagandist claimed for it the distinction of being the religion of all sensible men this austere faith owed much to the qualities of those who preached it their wide culture their power of literary expression their intellectual vigour and above all their moral earnestness and social enthusiasm recommended what had otherwise seemed a barren and unpromising footnote for an instance of the masterly work turned out by this school and of the attractiveness of their propaganda read huxley's lecture on a piece of chalk delivered to the working men of norwich during the meeting of the british association in eighteen sixty eight in footnote The generous humanitarian sympathies of Comte supplied the idealistic elements without which no faith can become popular, and the apparent stability of its scientific basis seemed to those impatient of speculative doubt a great rock in a desert of shifting sand.

This new scientific humanism had an immense vogue, and its effects upon national life were, on the whole, of a quite healthy character.

occasional lapses into intolerance no doubt occurred but much may be excused in the self-confidence of a new faith not yet tested by the experiences and the criticisms of years theological polemics the attacks of orthodox apologists upon this new orientation though carried through with the best intentions were too often conducted on mistaken lines and certainly on too narrow a front A particular theory of scriptural inspiration, now widely abandoned, and of the miraculous, seemed to obsess the controversialists.