Auguste Comte and Positivism. Reprinted from the Westminster Review. London: N. Trübner & Co. 1865.

[ii], 200 pp. plus leaf of 'Positivist Publications'; untrimmed. Original brown cloth (with binder's ticket, Westleys & Co. London, on rear pastedown), old reback with approx. two-thirds of original spine laid down, worn at extremities, some damp staining to top of upper board not affecting contents. First edition. In two parts, part I, pages 1-124, 'Auguste Comte and Positivism', part II, pages 125-200, 'The Later Speculations of M. Comte'. In Part I, Mill analyses and favourably criticises the earlier works of Comte which deal with the positive conception of the natural and social sciences, and in Part II analyses and criticises, much less favourably, the later works which deal with the positive conception of religion, politics, and morals. The articles first appeared in the Westminster Review in April and July 1865.