{Social Evolution}[3rd October 1990]

[Redbook8:4-7][19901003:1620d]{Social Evolution}[3rd October 1990]

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‘Auguste Comte, a French philosopher and sociologist, advanced a “law of three stages”, according to which mankind progresses from a theological stage, which is dominated by religion, through a metaphysical stage, in which abstract speculative thinking is most prominent, and onward toward a positivist stage, in which scientific theories based on empirical research come to dominate.’

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*– ibid [E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 27:416]

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