Comte

Isidore Auguste Marie Franco is XAVIER, founder of the ‘positive’ philosophy, was born in 1798. He was a pupil of St. Simon and drew up a formula of his doctrines which did not satisfy St. Simon. In 1826 Comte began his philosophical lectures, but soon after became insane, and did not recover till 1827. His Cours do Philosophio Positive has been translated into English. His second great work was Positive Polity.