He soon became a friend of Comte, and popularized his ideas in numerous works on the positivist philosophy.

However, he stated that, while he believed in a positivist philosophy, he did not believe in a "religion of humanity."

With his brother Vernon, he advocated positivist philosophy, motivated by the ideas of Auguste Comte.

Philosophically naturalism was largely popularized and defended by the unity of science movement that was advanced by logical positivist philosophy.

While Comte's religious movement was unsuccessful, the positivist philosophy of science itself played a major role in the proliferation of secular organizations in the 19th century.

Scientific politics was a late 19th-century political theory based on the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte.

Social research began most intentionally, however, with the positivist philosophy of science in the early 19th century.

It quickly emerged as part of an international Catholic intellectual revival, offering an alternative vision to positivist philosophy.

Bucke was for a number of years an enthusiast for Auguste Comte's positivist philosophy.

Freedom and positivist philosophies were politically popular.