Auguste Comte Biography. Auguste Comte was a renowned philosopher and introduced Sociology and positivism. This biography of Comte provides detailed information about his childhood, life, works, achievements & timeline.
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We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties, in certain offices or occasions, and do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut, and Eulenstein from a jews-harp, and a nimble-fingered lad out of shreds of paper with his scissors, and Landseer out of swine, and the hero out of the pitiful habitation and company in which he was hidden.