Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences: Being an exposition of the principles of the Cours de Philosophie Positive of Auguste Comte

Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences: Being an exposition of the principles of the Cours de Philosophie Positive of Auguste Comte

Lewes, George Henry

London: Bell & Daldy, 1871. Originally published in pieces within Leader, 1852 April to August, vol. 3, issues 106 - 125

Internet Archive

1871

George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, 2 September 1852. “Mr. Chapman says he wrote to Mr. Bray last night, so you know the last of his affairs. It seems that he is to go on. He makes a great point of my remaining here till Christmas, at all events, and I cannot under present "cums" say no. But ever since I came back I have felt something like the madness which imagines that the four walls are contracting and going to crush one. No sooner did I get in on Saturday than Mr. Atkinson called, and talked for 2 hours. He is very pleasant and intelligent and one can't help liking him. He shewed me a letter of Harriet Martineau's, in which she complains that she is overdone in her Irish peregrinations and in which she, with incomprehensible ignorance, jeers at Lewes for "introducing Psychology as a science in his Comte papers." Why Comte himself holds Psychology to be a necessary link in the chain of science -- Lewes only suggests a change in its relations. Entre nous she writes very sillily on the subject. But I am frightened to have told you this, for everything I say to any one at Rosehill gets around by some incomprehensible means to Lewes -- Lewes can tell you the whole state of your domestic affairs, if you like, of course with additions, if not emendations, by the editor or editors. I have heard nothing of the Combes yet.” GEL 2: 54

Lewes, George Henry, Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences: Being an exposition of the principles of the Cours de Philosophie Positive of Auguste Comte, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57158

https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/3f272164c103c8fae848cb1d4912b2b2.pdf