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This doctrine had its rise not so very long-fifty years-ago. Its principal founder was the French savant Comte. There occurred to Comte,-a systematist, and a religious man to boot,-under the influence of the then novel physiological investigations of Biche, the old idea already set forth by Menenius Agrippa,-the idea that human society, all humanit