ABSTRACT
Positivism, being more pacific and more efficacious than communism, because more true, is also broader and more complete in its solution of great social problems. Wide as the divergence between positivism and the economic schools is, positivists adopt substantially the strictures that they have passed upon communism. This chapter involves a brief explanation of the general system of education that positivism will introduce as the principal function of the new spiritual power and its most efficient instrument for satisfying the working classes in all reasonable demands. Positivism rejects the metaphysical doctrine of the sovereignty of the people. The metaphysical doctrine of the sovereignty of the people contains, however, a truth of permanent value, though in a very confused form. This truth positivism separates very distinctly from its dangerous alloy, yet without weakening, on the contrary, with the effect of enforcing, its social import.
