Foreknowledge Is Power.

Everything Is Relative; And Only That Is Absolute.

The Law Is This: That Each Of Our Leading Conceptions-each Branch Of Our Knowledge-passes Successively Through Three Different Theoretical Conditions: The Theological, Or Fictitious: The Metaphysical, Or Abstract; And The Scientific, Or Positive.

All Good Intellects Have Repeated, Since Bacon's Time, That There Can Be No Real Knowledge But That Which Is Based On Observed Facts. This Is Incontestable, In Our Present Advanced Stage; But, If We Look Back To The Primitive Stage Of Human Knowledge, We Shall See That It Must Have Been Otherwise Then. If It Is True That Every Theory Must Be Based Upon Observed Facts; It Is Equally True That Facts Can Not Be Observed Without The Guidance Of Some Theory. Without Such Guidance, Our Facts Would Be Desultory And Fruitless; We Could Not Retain Them: For The Most Part We Could Not Even Perceive Them.

After Montesquieu, The Next Great Addition To Sociology (which Is The Term I May Be Allowed To Invent To Designate Social Physics) Was Made By Condorcet, Proceeding On The Views Suggested By His Illustrious Friend Turgot.

Mathematical Analysis Is... The True Rational Basis Of The Whole System Of Our Positive Knowledge.