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Emile Littre : [on Comte]

'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

Littre : "epitome" (relating to Auguste Comte)

Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear preparatory view, at second-hand, from a friend [...] What I learned then [...] impelled me to study the great book for myself; and in the spring of 1851 [...] I got the book, and set to work. I had meantime looked at Lewes's chapter on Comte in Mr. Knight's Weekly Volume, and at Littre's epitome'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Unknown

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