ABSTRACT
The increasing imperfection of the economy of nature becomes a powerful stimulus to all political theorists faculties, whether moral, intellectual, or practical. The object of the synthesis will not be secured until it embraces the whole extent of its domain, the moral and practical departments as well as the intellectual. The true path of human progress lies in the opposite direction; in diminishing the vacillation, inconsistency, and discordance of political theorists designs by furnishing external motives for those operations of their intellectual, moral, and practical powers, of which the original source was purely internal. On reviewing the brief sketch of the intellectual character of positivism, it will be seen that all its essential attributes are summed up in the word "positive," which applied to the new philosophy at its outset. The organic character of the system leads us naturally to another of its attributes, namely, its invariable relativity.
