"Clearness and depth, comprehensiveness and precision, have never, perhaps, been so remarkably united as in Augusts Comte. He views his subject from an elevation which gives to each part of the complex whole its true position and value, while his telescopic glance loses none of the needful details, and not only... pierces to the heart of the matter, but converts its opaqueness into such transparent crystal, that other eyes are enabled to see as deeply into it as his own."