As no man can come to me but by the grace and lively inoperation of my Father, so none can attain to the perfect knowledge of the Father

And just as it is only the animal organism as a whole that can be regarded as a real entity, the calls of which it is composed having no distinct independent life, so Comte constantly repeats that 'Humanity is the only real existence, the individual being a mere metaphysical abstraction.'

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To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise