Comte's system of positivism embraced modernity by ______________.
A. arguing that humans were indeed the product of evolution, and by virtue of their success, Europeans were superior in the world
B. posing three phases of human development, with the last phase (modern) embracing science and quantitative methods for proving social theory
C. rejecting the artifice of Romanticism and returning instead to the values of the Enlightenment
D. cataloguing human accomplishments by degrees of technology
E. None of these methods
Answer: B
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A. centralized B. religious C. decentralized D. militarized
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