"The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion."
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Auguste Comte
1798 – 1857
französischer Mathematiker und Philosoph
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