Yet who can doubt that Comte would have been hanged by his own hierarchy; that his essor materiel, which was in fact troubled by the 'theologians and metaphysicians' of the Polytechnic School, would have been more impeded by the government he wanted to make?
Bagehot speculates on the potential fate of Comte under his own proposed hierarchical system.
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