Nothing Is Destroyed Until It Is Replaced.

Men Are Not Allowed To Think Freely About Chemistry And Biology: Why Should They Be Allowed To Think Freely About Political Philosophy?

Nd Now That Man's History Has Been For The First Time Systematically Considered As A Whole, And Has Been Found To Be, Like All Other Phenomena, Subject To Invariable Laws, The Preparatory Labours Of Modern Science Are Ended.

In The Final, The Positive, State, The Mind Has Given Over The Vain Search After Absolute Notions, The Origin And Destination Of The Universe, And The Causes Of Phenomena, And Applies Itself To The Study Of Their Laws - That Is, Their Invariable Relations Of Succession And Resemblance. Reasoning And Observation, Duly Combined, Are The Means Of This Knowledge. What Is Now Understood When We Speak Of An Explanation Of Facts Is Simply The Establishment Of A Connection Between Single Phenomena And Some General Facts.

Language Forms A Kind Of Wealth, Which All Can Make Use Of At Once Without Causing Any Diminution Of The Store, And Which Thus Admits A Complete Community Of Enjoyment; For All, Freely Participating In The General Treasure, Unconsciously Aid In Its Preservation.

All Good Intellects Have Repeated, Since Bacon's Time, That There Can Be No Real Knowledge But Which Is Based On Observed Facts.