"Systematist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had its rise not so very long—fifty years—ago. Its principal founder was the French savant Comte. There occurred to Comte,—a systematist, and a religious man to boot,—under the influence of the then novel physiological investigations of Biche, the old idea already set forth by Menenius Agrippa,—the idea that human society, all humanity even, might be regarded as one whole, as an organism; ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi |
