...closely reasoned argument is intended to controvert the words of John Stuart Mill, in his essay on Comte, that 'all phenomena, without exception, are governed...volitions, either natural or supernatural, interfere.' Mr. Arthur unfolds with great clearness and remarkable illustrative power the insuperable distinction...

...proceeding through the metaphysical to the positive : the metaphysical being a mere state of transition, but an indispensable one, from the theological mode...to prevail, by the universal recognition that all phsenomena without exception are governed by invariable laws, with which no volitions, either natural...

...Mill's essay upon Auijuste Cotnte ami Positivism, are placed in juxtaposition. In one Mr Mill asserts that '' all phenomena, without exception, are governed...volitions, either natural or supernatural, interfere," and in the other he says, that " the theological mode of explaining phenomena was once universal, with...

...passage Mr Mill defines the Positive as distinguished from the Theological Mode of Thought to be — " that all phenomena, without exception, are governed...volitions either natural or supernatural interfere" * It is at least satisfactory to find in this sentence so clear an avowal that the idea of free Divine...

...passage Mr. Mill defines the Positive as distinguished from the Theological Mode of Thought to be—" that all phenomena, without exception, are governed...volitions either natural or supernatural interfere" 1 It is at least satisfactory to find in this sentence so clear an avowal that the idea of free Divine...

...Buckle. Buckle had become possessed of the great idea commonly associated with the name of Comte, viz. that " all phenomena without exception are governed by invariable laws with which no volitions natural or supernatural interfere," and in his "History of Civilisation" (1858-61) he had endeavoured...

...Mill as defining the Positive as distinguished from the Theological mode of Thought in this way — "that all phenomena without exception are governed by invariable laws, with which no rolilions, either natural or supernatural, interfere." The italies are those of his Grace, and so are...

...passage Mr. Mill defines the Positive as distinguished from the Theological Mode of Thought to be— " that all phenomena, without exception, are governed...which no volitions either natural or supernatural interfere""1 It is at least satisfactory to find in this sentence so clear an avowal that the idea...

...distinct from the concrete bodies in which they reside ; while the characteristic of the positive stage is the universal recognition that all phenomena without...governed by invariable laws, with which no volitions, natural or supernatural, interfere. These being the three stages, the discovery of which as a series...

...morals. Mr. Mill, in reviewing Comte's theory approvingly, says : " The transition is steadily proceeding from the theological mode of thought to the positive,...volitions, either natural or supernatural, interfere." Mill would subject even the Creator and Governor to necessity, and restrict him to arbitrary arrangements,...