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Royden Harrison Positivism Collection.Docx Special Collections and archives: Royden Harrison Positivism Collection This collection was donated to the University of Sheffield in 2006 in memory of Royden Harrison, senior lecturer in the Institute of Lifelong Learning and reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield. The collection consists of around 150 volumes relating to the Positivist movement, including works by Auguste Comte, Richard Congreve and Frederic Harrison, as well as pamphlets and volumes of key journals. 1. Ingram, John K., Outlines of the history of religion (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1900) 2. Crompton, Henry, Industrial conciliation (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) 3. Gould, F.J., The life-story of a humanist (London: Watts & Co., 1923) 4. Ingram, John K., Practical morals (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904) 5. Mill, John Stuart, Three essays on religion 3rd ed. (London: Longmans, 1874) 2 copies 6. Congreve, Richard, Historical lectures (London: Church of Humanity, 1900) 7. Russell, Bertrand, The Amberley papers Vols 1 & 2 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1937) 8. Lubac, Henri de, The drama of atheist humanism (London: Sheed & Ward, 1949) 9. Wright, T.R., The religion of humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) 10. Knickerbocker, Frances Wentworth, Free minds: John Morley and his friends (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1943) 11. Lightman, Bernard, The origins of agnosticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987) 12. Doyle, Edward, Victorian infidels (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1974) 13. Whittaker, Thomas, Comte and Mill (London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1908) 2 copies 14. Budd, Susan, Varieties of unbelief (London: Heinemann, 1977) 15. Everett, Edwin Mallard, The party of humanity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939) 16. Bergman, David, A history of atheism in Britain (London: Croom Helm, 1988) 17. Watson, John, Comte, Mill, and Spencer (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1895) 18. Mill, John Stuart, Auguste Comte and Positivism (Lodnon: Trubner & Co., 1866) 19. Mallorca, W.H., The new Paul and Virginia (London: Chatto & Windus, 1878) 20. Call, W.M.W., Reverberations 2nd ed. (London: Trubner & Co., 1876) 21. Smith, Warren Sylvester, The London heretics, 1870-1914 (London: Constable, 1967) 22. MacKillop, I.D., The British ethical societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) 23. McGee, John Edwin, A crusade for humanity (London: Watts & Co., 1931) 24. Martineau, Harriet, The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte Vols 1 & 2 (London: Trubner & Co., 1875) 25. Harrison, Frederic, The philosophy of common sense (London: Macmillan & Co., 1907) 26. Zea, Leopoldo, El Positivismo en Mexico 2nd ed. (Mexico: Ediciones Studium, 1953) 27. Zea, Leopoldo, Dos etapas del pensamiento en Hispanoamerica (Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 1949 28. Comte, Auguste, The fundamental principles of the Positive philosophy (London: Watts & Co., 1905) 29. Comte, Auguste, A general view of Positivism (Paris: Trubner & Co., 1848) and (London: Routledge, 1848) and (New York: Speller, 1957) 3 copies 30. Simon, W.M., European Positivism in the nineteenth century (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1963) 31. Harp, Gillis J., Positivist republic (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 1995) 32. Mairet, Philip, Pioneer of sociology: the life and letters of Patrick Geddes (London: Lund Humphries, 1957) 33. Sellers, Ian, An experiment in humanism: Windsor Street Ethical Church, Liverpool, and its founder, the Reverend Harry Youlden 34. Sellers, Ian, Salute to Pembroke: the story of the rise, progresss, decline and fall of a most remarkable dissenting congregation 35. Annan, Noel, Leslie Stephen: the godless Victorian (New York: Random House, 1984) 36. Boardman, Philip, The worlds of Patrick Geddes (London:Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978) 37. Royce, Edward, Radicals, secularists and republicans: popular freethought in Britain, 1866-1915 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980) 38. Harrison, Frederic, Autobiographic memoirs Vols 1 & 2 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1911) 39. Davies, C. Maurice, Heterodox London (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969) 40. Davies, C. Maurice, Unorthodox London (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969) 41. Cockshutt, A.O.J., The unbelievers (London: Collins, 1964) 42. Mill, John Stuart, Autobiography (London: Longmans, 1873) 43. Harrison, Frederic, Order and progress (London: Longmans, 1875) 44. Quin, Malcolm, Memoirs of a Positivist (London: Allen & Unwin, 1924) 45. Harrison, Frederic ed., The new calendar of great men (London: Macmillan & Co., 1892) 46. Harrison, Frederic, The choice of books, and other literary pieces (London: Macmillan & Co., 1886 & 1925) 2 copies 47. Bridges, J.H., Discourses on Positive religion (London: Reeves & Turner, 1891) 48. Congreve, Richard, Positivist tables (Liverpool: Church of Humanity, n.d.) 2 copies 49. Harrison, Frederic, Chatham (London: Macmillan & Co., 1905) 50. Harrison, Frederic, Oliver Cromwell (London: Macmillan & Co., 1895) 51. Harrison, Frederic, Theophano: the crusade of the tenth century (London: Chapman & Hall, 1904) 52. Harrison, Austin, Frederic Harrison: thoughts and memories (London: Heinemann, 1926) 53. Vogeler, Martha S., Frederic Harrison: the vocations of a Positivist (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984) 54. Harrison, Frederic, Memories and thoughts (London: Macmillan & Co., 1906) 55. Harrison, Frederic, Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899) 56. Harrison, Frederic, On society (London: Macmillan & Co., 1918) 57. Harrison, Frederic, The meaning of history (London: Macmillan & Co., 1894) 58. Harrison, Frederic, The creed of a layman (London: Macmillan & Co., 1907) 59. Harrison, Frederic, National and social problems (London: Macmillan & Co., 1908) 60. Harrison, Frederic, De Senectute: more last words (London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923) 61. Harrison, Frederic, The positive evolution of religion (London: Heinemann, 1913) 62. Congreve, Richard, Positivist discourses (London: King, 1876) 63. Kent, Christopher, Brains and numbers: elitism, Comtism, and democracy in mid- Victorian England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978) 64. Harrison, Frederic, Obiter scripta (London: Chapman & Hall, 1919) 65. Hutton, Henry Dix, Comte: the man and the founder (London, William Reeves, 1899) 66. Plamenatz, John, The English Utilitarians (Oxford: Blackwell, 1949) 67. Harrison, Frederic, John Ruskin (London: Macmillan & Co., 1902) 68. Ward, Wilfrid, The clothes of religion (London: Burns & Oates, 1886) 69. Packe, Michael St John, The life of John Stuart Mill (London: Secker & Warburg, 1954) 70. Hamburger, Joseph, Intellectuals in politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) 71. Hamburger, Joseph, James Mill and the art of revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963) 72. Browne, James, A critical examination of Dr. Macculloch's work on the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland (Edinburgh: Daniel Lizars, 1825) 73. Bain, Alexander, James Mill: a biography (London: Longmans, 1882) 74. Mill, John Stuart, Principles of political economy (London: Longmans, 1921) 75. Margin, F.S., Comte: the founder of sociology (London: Chapman & Hall, 1936) 76. Mill, John Stuart, A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive (London: Longmans, 1906) 77. Mises, Richard von, Positivism: a study in human understanding (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951) 78. Berredo-Carneiro, Auguste Comte: nouvelles letters inedites (Paris: Archives Positivistes, 1939) 79. Magnin, Fabien, Etudes sociales (Paris: Georges Cres, 1913) 2 copies 80. Lonchampt, Joseph, Précis de la vie et des ecrits d'Auguste Comte (Paris: Archives Positivistes, 1889) 81. Lopes, R. Paula, Auguste Comte: le proletariat dans la societe moderne (Paris: Archives Positivistes, 1946) 82. Comte, Auguste, Systeme de philosophie positive (Paris: Archives Positivistes, 1942) 83. Fletcher, Ronald, The crisis of industrial civilisation: the early essays of Auguste Comte (London: Heinemann, 1974) 84. Verrier, Rene, Roberty (Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1934) 85. Lenzer, Gertrud, Auguste Comte and Positivism: the essential writings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975) 86. Thomas, William, The philosophic radicals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979) 87. Evans-Pritchard, E.E., The sociology of Comte: an appreciation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970) 88. Comte, Auguste, System of positive polity 3 vols (London: Longmans, 1875) 89. Ruskin, John, Fors clavigera 9 vols (Orpington: George Allen, 1871-1887) 90. Charlton, D.G., Positivist thought in France during the Second Empire, 1852-1870 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959) 91. Mackintosh, Robert, From Comte to Benjamin Kidd (London: Macmillan, 1899) 92. Charlton, D.G., Secular religions in France, 1815-1870 (Hull: University of Hull, 1963) 93. Comte, Auguste, Appeal to conservatives (London: Trubner, 1889) 94. Crompton, Albert (ed.), Confessions and testament of Auguste Comte, and his correspondence with Clotilde de Vaux (Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1910) 95. Wallon, Henri, A la lumiere du Marxisme 2 vols (Paris: Editions Sociales Internationales, 1936) 96. Laffitte, Pierre, The Positive science of morals (London: Watts & Co., 1908) 97. Comte, Auguste, The catechism of Positive religion (London: Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891) 98. Style, Jane M., Auguste Comte: thinker and lover (London: Kegan Paul, 1928) 99. Beesly, Edward Spencer, Comte's discourse on the Positive spirit (London: Reeves, 1903) 100. Andreski, Stanislav (ed.), The essential Comte (London: Croom Helm, 1974) 101. Lewis, G.H.,
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