CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTORY . 1 



PART I 

 COMTISM, WITH SOME SCATTERED PARALLELS 



CHAPTER II 



COMTE'S LIFE AND THE PRINCIPLES OP HIS TEACHING . . 9 



CHAPTER HI 



THE APPEAL TO BIOLOGY . . . . .25 



Note A. On " Natural Law in the Spiritual World " . .32 



CHAPTER IV 

 THE APPEAL TO HISTORY . . . . .34 



CHAPTER V 



THE DOCTRINE OP ALTRUISM . 45 



