Semerie

(Eugène), French Positivist, b. Aix, 6 Jan. 1832. Becoming physician at Char ent on, he studied mental maladies, and in ’67 published a work on Intellectual Symptoms of Madne , in which he maintained that the disordered mind went back from Positivism to metaphysics, theology, and then to fetishism. This work was denounced by the Bishop of Orleans. Dr. Semerie wrote A Simple Reply to M. Dupanloup , ’68. During the sieges of Paris he acted as surgeon and director of the ambulance. A friend of Pierre Lafitte, he edited the Politique Positive , and wrote Positivists and Catholics , ’73, and The Law of the Three States , ’75. Died at Gra e, May, 1884.