COMTE, Auguste.
DESCOURS, Paul and H. Gordon JONES, translators. The fundamental principles of the positive philosophy. Being the first two chapters of the “Cours de philosophie positive”. [Issue for the Rationalist Press Association]. London, Watts, 1905.
8vo, pp. 63, [1 blank]; a very good copy in original brown printed cloth, boards slightly bowed, traces of label and ink to front endpaper.
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DESCOURS, Paul and H. Gordon JONES, translators. The fundamental principles of the positive philosophy. Being the first two chapters of the “Cours de philosophie positive”. [Issue for the Rationalist Press Association].
First edition thus, rare in commerce. The introduction is by Edward Spencer Beesly, an English positivist who was acquainted with Marx. In 1893 he founded the Positivist Review. He describes this as the first instalment in a more complete translation of Comte’s Philosophie Positive than Harriet Martineau’s ‘condensed’ version of 1853; first published in French from 1830-1842.