Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-233) and index.
Contents:
Comte and the crisis of Gilded Age liberalism -- "The church of humanity": orthodox positivism in New York, 1854-1876 -- "The mother and nurse of all reforms": Comtean revisionism, 1876-1883 -- T.B. Wakeman: Comtist as radical -- Lester F. Ward: positivist whig -- Positivist as academic: Albion Small and E.A. Ross -- Herbert Croly: positivist progressive.
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