“Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.”

—  Auguste Comte

Source: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 235

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