Religion Is An Illusion Of Childhood, Outgrown

The Heavens Declare The Glory Of Kepler And Newton.

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.

Foreknowledge Is Power.

The Only Real Life Is The Collective Life Of The Race; Individual Life Has No Existence Except As An Abstraction.