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  • noun A follower of Comtism.

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Comte +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • This is = to the Comtist theory of the duties of capitalists, and is one of the noblest disquisitions in all

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • Both the Comtist and evolutionist theories of pro - gress are philosophically vulnerable.

    DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968

  • Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) tempted some of those who believed that history is progressive to look to biology for an alternative to the Comtist foundation for their faith.

    DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968

  • Positive_ of Comte will govern him in his social and political relations, while in the supreme concern of worship, I venture to foretell a widening of the Comtist ideal so as to admit of such conceptions as underlie the philosophical belief of Mr. Spencer, that the world and man are but "the fugitive product of a Power without beginning or end," whose essence is ineffable.

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

  • On the evening of May eth Sir Charles met Laffitte, "the Comtist Pope," at the Political Economy Club.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • "Who is responsible for the War?" by "Scrutator" -- probably from the pen of Congreve, the Comtist, who I know was in correspondence with the Duc de Gramont.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • If Comtism had spread the world would have been converted, not by the Comtist philosophy, but by the

    Heretics 1905

  • To the solid English Comtist all this appears, he confesses, to be a little absurd.

    Heretics 1905

  • I had been working at some Comtist literature, and had found a reference to Mr. Truelove's shop as one at which Comtist publications might be bought.

    Autobiographical Sketches Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • I had been working at some Comtist literature, and had found a reference to Mr. Truelove's shop as one at which Comtist publications might be bought.

    Autobiographical Sketches Besant, Annie 1885

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