The three Ministers of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce Relations of the Triumvirate to the proletariate Gratuitous discharge of the functions of government (ii.) Spiritual Expenditure. The Sacerdotal Subsidy The total expenses of nutrition to be met by the patriciate The chief function of the banker The part of the proletariate in civic life Favourable situation of the proletariate morally Its great power to be felt rather than put forth Monopoly prevented by the Country being subordinated to Humanity The priesthood will need in this the aid of the bankers and proletariate Domesticated animals: (i.) Those which serve for food (ii.) Those which give us active aid. Animals not to be employed when inorganic forces will do All classes must cooperate in this amelioration Difficulty of the final phase The West becomes the organ of renovation by virtue of its triple transition 317 The revolutionary tendency, once useful, is now noxious Thus the chief task is to regenerate the West Discredit of the Revolutionary party. Hence it is easy for Positivism to order the transition Appreciation of the revolutionary principle of private judgment 316 317 317 317 Its results The wide range of the anarchy 320 321 The two tasks of the Positive Religion: To make Generality prevail over The order of transition as regards the Western nations. Reasons The determination of the transition in France to be followed by that which concerns the others 324 The transition in France. Prefatory remarks 325 The same influences must preside over the introduction of the normal state Special application of these dispositions to the opening of the transition Conversion not necessary, but there must be a paramount will to modify 327 328 Its power to modify without converting, a valuable privilege of Positivism . 328 The two bases of the organic transition. The Dictatorship and Spiritual Liberty. Excuse for the non-recognition of this condition by the Dictator With Positivism the Dictatorship may feel secure Suppression of the budgets of Theology, Metaphysics, and Science How this measure should be carried out (i.) In regard to Theology. The opposition of Catholicism Attitude of Positivism to disestablished Catholicism Attitude of the dictatorial government to Catholicism Attitude towards the non-Catholic monotheists of the West. (ii.) In regard to Metaphysics. Abolition of the University Necessity of the adoption of the Positivist political formula: Order and The act which inaugurates the transition. Return of Napoleon to St. Helena 345 The column in the Place Vendôme. Charlemagne 345 Efforts of the priesthood to prepare the normal state by the glorification Supplementary names Three degrees in this concrete glorification of Humanity The Positive era. Provisional era. 1789 Definitive era, 1855 . For intellectual purposes the monthly and weekly types suffice For moral the daily types required Insufficiency of the concrete worship. In the calendar theoretical and practical services prevail over moral The calendar purely provisional Two provisions required, (1) The days of the week are not consecrated to the fundamental ties. 346 346 346 351 (1) Conversion of the woman after marriage allowed, not of the man (2) The woman must accept eternal widowhood 352 352 353 354 354 Positivism realises the mediæval Utopia by presenting the members of the human family as issuing from a spouseless mother 358 There must be no monopoly Experience of the Polytechnic School Open competition for the public service so far as the lower grade is concerned 369 The services most in view are those of Justice, Diplomacy, Administration. 370 The school of most value in medicine Measures for regenerating the medical profession Hospitals 371 372 The public health secure under the Director-General of the Positive Schools 380 (c) Esthetic. The Theatre Scepticism not constructive temporal Such division a guarantee of peace in the West The triumvirate secures the political ascendancy of Positivism As also the independence of the priesthood The dictator, proprio motu, instals the triumvirs The change effected by modifying the ministerial system (b) Scientific. School of Philology Its constitution The second phase is not, any more than the first, organic The successive adoption of the two mottoes offers a programme rather than a solution General insufficiency of the two phases shown The moral must precede the political renovation Third Phase. The government becomes Positivist, the governed remaining sceptical The systematic Triumvirate It guarantees the government being purely practical. Mutual encroachments of the two powers ended by the division of the PAGE 383 383 384 385 385 . Its mode Two amendments in the original plan with their origin Necessity of a common doctrine as the basis of political unity The ministers must not be too numerous The three required, condensing the existing offices The admission of a proletary, the only glaring anomaly in the preparatory It will extinguish Demagogism, and tend to regenerate the patricians Not possible all at once to discontinue election The offices to be held on good behaviour Disgust at the existing scepticism Not only the triumvirs, but all really political functionaries to be Positivists 396 Narrowest limits of this obligation to 29 Statesmen. 396 397 Three conclusive instances of success not depending on numbers On the conversion of the statesmen the anomaly which exists as to the prac tical virtues will disappear (1) The Economists; (2) The Encyclopædists; (3) The Republicans Appreciation of its bearing. Applicable to the spiritual domain, its chief value is in the temporal (2) The triumvirate's chief measure. 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