System of Positive Polity, Third Volume, Containing SOCIAL DYNAMICS, OR THE GENERAL THEORY OF HUMAN PROGRESS

In the publisher's original green cloth, brown endpages, gilt titles, 536 pages plus 24 pages of advertisements. Volume 3 out of 4 volumes published in England between 1875-1877. Comte was a French philosopher and a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He was a major influence on such social thinkers as Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer. The book is Very Good, cloth faded bottom edge boards,front hinge starting, contents clean, tight, unmarked an no foxing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.