id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2ddhwze3irfk7gk2e7g3oar63i Kenneth Sacks Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought—Part 2: Twilight of New England Comtism 2017.0 13 .pdf application/pdf 8582 597 58 Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought—Part 2: Twilight of New England Comtism the post-war Transcendentalist and liberal Unitarian institutions of the Free Religious Association and Keywords: Comte; positivism; intuitionalism; Unitarianism; Free Religious Association; Radical Club; Francis Ellingwood Abbot; Octavius Brooks Frothingham; Thomas Wentworth Higginson delivered a public lecture entitled, "Intuitionalism versus Science; or the Civil War in Free Religion." Scientific Schools of Free Religion" (Abbot 1871b, p. biblical) material to prove their faith, and to Abbot's wing of the FRA which argues that only science Emerson, also a member of the FRA but gravitating more to the Radical Club, reflected in his application of science to religion that the FRA supported ended traditional transcendentalism and science can and will establish the facts of religion (Abbot 1867, p. scorn for Comte's pseudo-science, Abbot, who called himself a "positivist in theology" (Ahlstrom and [Comte's Positivism and the Free Religious Association] . ./cache/work_2ddhwze3irfk7gk2e7g3oar63i.pdf ./txt/work_2ddhwze3irfk7gk2e7g3oar63i.txt