CHAPTER VII.
THE SUPERSTITION OF POSITIVISM.
Glendower.

_I can call spirits from the vasty deep._ Hotspur.

_Why so can I, or so can any man, But will they come when you do call for them ?_ Henry IV.

Part 1.
General and indefinite as the foregoing considerations have been, they are quite definite enough to be of the utmost practical import.

They are definite enough to show the utter hollowness of that vague faith in progress, and the glorious prospects that lie before humanity, on which the positive school at present so much rely, and about which so much is said.