90/116 163, 164.] [Footnote 213: Sept. 179-187.] [Footnote 214: xviii. 476, 478.] [Footnote 215: xviii.479.Comte writes more seriously somewhat in the same sense: "For thirty centuries the priestly castes of China, and still more of India, have been watching our Western transition; to them it must appear mere agitation, as puerile as it is tempestuous, with nothing to harmonise its different phases but their common inroad upon unity." _Positive Polity_, iv. |