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MR. JEVONS called attention some time ago to the desirability of preparing a list of past thinkers and writers who have held, in strength or weakness, the doctrines of Darwin and Spencer. Mr. Darwin has himself named a few of those authors, and Prof. Haeckel has extended the number. Recent communications In NATURE show that the list is as yet incomplete. In reading Comte's “Cours de Philosophie Positive” a few years ago, I was impressed with the general similarity of certain doctrines therein stated with some of Darwin's theories. Referring recently to the 42nd lesson of that course (t. iii.)— “Considerations générales sur la philosophie biotaxique,” I find that Comte, in reviewing the Lamarck-Cuvier controversy, says:—
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BELL, J. Comte on the Survival of the Fittest. Nature 8, 283 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008283a0
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