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One variety, however, the Comtist, far exceeds all the rest in the lengths to which it is carried by this propensity.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

So you caught the Radical, Comtist, æsthetic little minx in her own trap. 

From Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches by Oliphant, Laurence

I had been working at some Comtist literature, and had found a reference to Mr. Truelove's shop as one at which Comtist publications might be bought.

From Autobiographical Sketches by Besant, Annie Wood

If Comtism had spread the world would have been converted, not by the Comtist philosophy, but by the Comtist calendar.

From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

He was a devoted and orthodox Comtist, for whom Edwardes had provided an outlet for the philanthropic passion, as he had for many others belonging to far stranger and remoter faiths.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.