Auguste ComteThe Blues is not able to be fully understood by white folks, for they hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Knowledge passes successively through three different historical theoretical conditions: The theological (or fictitious): The metaphysical (or abstract)... and the scientific (or positive).
The Law of three stages is the idea that society (and its science) develops through the stages of theology, metaphysics, ending in positivism.
Life is only real when it is the collective life of the race... individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
Positivism is a scientific approach to philosophy in which all knowledge is founded upon facts.
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
Positivism is that whereby love is the principle, the order is the foundation, and progress is the goal.
