The Positive Philosophy
                                        of
                              Auguste Comte
                             Freely Translated and Condensed by
                                Harriet Martineau
                                  With an Introduction by
                                  Frederic Harrison
                                   In Three Volumes
                                      Vol. II
                             Batoche Books
                                  Kitchener
                                     2000
                     London,  George Bell & Sons, 1896
                           Contents
               Book V: Biology................................................................................. 5
                Chapter I: General View of Biology................................................. 5
                Chapter II: Anatomical Philosophy................................................ 43
                Chapter III: Biotaxic Philosophy ................................................... 53
                Chapter IV: Organic or Votive Life................................................ 67
                Chapter V: The Animal Life. ......................................................... 82
                Chapter VI: Intellectual And Moral, or Cerebral Functions .......... 95
               Book VI: Social Physics .................................................................116
                Chapter I: Necessity and Opportuneness of this New Science......116
                Chapter II: Principal Philosophical Attempts to Constitute a Social
                 System..................................................................................... 162
                Chapter III: Characteristics of the Positive Method in Its Application
                 to Social Phenomena. .............................................................. 175
                Chapter IV: Relation of Sociology to The Other Departments of
                 Positive Philosophy ................................................................. 215
                Chapter V: Social Statics; or, Theory of The Spontaneous Order of
                 Human Society ........................................................................ 229
                Chapter VI: Social Dynamics; or, Theory of the Natural Progress of
                 Human Society ........................................................................ 249