Comtism
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Philosophic assailants of Comtism have not always resisted the temptation to recall the circumstance that its founder was once out of his mind.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
If Comtism had spread the world would have been converted, not by the Comtist philosophy, but by the Comtist calendar.
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Then he dabbled a little in Comtism; but very soon he threw aside that gigantic make-believe at believing.
From Sunrise by William Black
Nothing could exceed the discord of vituperation, the Hebraism of Carlyle denouncing the Vaticanism of Wiseman, "Free Kirk and other rubbish" pitted against "Comtism, ghastliest of algebraic spectralities."
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse
Comtism, while it bids us devote and sacrifice ourselves to the future of humanity, can apparently hold out nothing more.
From No Refuge but in Truth by Goldwin Smith
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