Excerpt from Human Nature and Morals: According to Auguste Comte With Notes Illustrative of the Principles of Positivism
The Notes, it may be added, at first intended as developments or explanations of particular passages in the Human Nature and Morals, are now placed on an independent basis as elucidations of fundamental points in the Philosophy and Religion of Comte.
His Cerebral Theory, explained in the present volume, may be regarded as a renovated form of the system of Gall. Those who can recall the forties and fifties of the nineteenth century will remember how much progressive intellects in these islands had been impressed by the Phrenological doctrine, which, for the first time, placed the study of the Moral and Mental nature of Man on the right basis. Never has greater injustice been done than has befallen the memory of its illustrious founder. He is, in many minds, confounded with the crowd of charlatans who once successfully traded on the popular interest he had awakened. And men of Science who have profited by his labours have often refused him the honour which was his due.
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