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Cours de philosophie positive

Auguste Comte died #OTD in 1857.

French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion. via @Britannica

Books by Auguste Comte at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35532

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