Mr. C. J. Monroe objects that in this statement I do injustice to Comte, who, he thinks, did impress upon his readers the inadequacy of our mental powers compared with the vastness of the subject matter of science. The error of Comte, he holds, was in maintaining that science had been carried about as far as it is worth while to carry it, which is a different matter. In either case, Comte’s position is so untenable that I am content to leave the question undecided.
Fragments of Science, p. 362.
Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects, p. 458.
Philosophical Magazine, 3rd Series, vol. xxvi. p. 406.
History of the Theory of Probability, p. 398.
Trigonometry and Double Algebra, chap. ix.
Agassiz, Essay on Classification, p. 75.
Additional notes
Commercium Epistolicum. Epistola ad Oldenburgum, Oct. 24, 1676. Horsley’s Works of Newton, vol. iv. p. 541. See De Morgan in Penny Cyclopædia, art. “Binomial Theorem,” p. 412.