The father of positivism, Auguste Comte, believed in all the following EXCEPT
a. contemporary society was in a state of intellectual anarchy.
b. the laws of human behavior can be discovered just as the law of gravity has been; one such law is the "law of three stages" to describe the development of human knowledge.
c. in the most primitive stage of human knowledge, natural phenomena was explained by the supernatural.
d. the metaphysical stage was a transitional stage in which phenomena were explained through abstractions.
e. in the final stage, which included the Enlightenment and Comte's own time, all illusions are dispelled and the mind is convinced only by observation and verifiable information.
e
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A) state supervision of labor and the workplace. B) racist Jim Crow laws. C) the Settlement House movement. D) reform of city government.
Many leaders of the _____'s rights movement took a leading role in the Antislavery movement.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The "spoils system" refers to
A. giving out jobs as political rewards. B. giving away land taken from Indians to white settlers. C. parceling out federal land to the highest bidder. D. making illegal payoffs to political supporters. E. the destruction of land by overly aggressive settlement.
The English monarch most responsible for defining the Protestant Reformation in England was
a. Mary of Scotland. b. James II. c. Charles I. d. Elizabeth I. e. Philip II.