[188-1] No one has seen the error here pointed out, and its injurious results on thought, more clearly than Comte himself. He is emphatic in condemning “le tendance involontaire à constituer l’unité spéculative par l’ascendant universel des plus grossières contemplations numérique, geométrique ou mécaniques.” Systême de Politique Positive; Tome I., p. 51. But he was too biassed to apply this warning to Christian thought. The conception of the Universe in the logic of Professor De Morgan and Boole is an example of speculative unity.
[189-1] Bhagavad Gità, ch. iv.
[190-1] See the introduction by Mr. J. W. Etheridge to The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel (London, 1862). St. Augustine believed the trinity is referred to in the opening verses of Genesis. Confessiones, Lib. xiii. cap. 5. The early Christian writer, Theophilus of Antioch (circa 225), in his Apologia, recognizes the Jewish trinity only. It was a century later that the dogma was defined in its Athanasian form. See further, Isaac Preston Cory, Ancient Fragments, with an Inquiry into the Trinity of the Gentiles (London, 1832).
[191-1] The Unseen Universe, p. 194.
[194-1] “A good will is the only altogether good thing in the world.”—Kant. “What man conceives in himself is always superior to that reality which it precedes and prepares.”—Comte.