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RICHARD CONGREVE (1818-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD CONGREVE (1818-1899)  ,
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English Positivist, was born at
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Leamington on the 4th of September 1818, and was educated at
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Rugby under Dr Arnold, who is said to have expressed a higher opinion of him than of any other pupil . After taking first-class honours at Oxford and gaining a fellowship at Wadham College, he spent some time as a master at Rugby, but returned to Oxford as a tutor . Soon after the revolution of 1848 he visited Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Barthelemy St Hilaire and Auguste Comte . He was so attracted by the Positive philosophy that he resigned his fellowship in 1855, and devoted the remainder of his
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life to the
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propagation of the Positive philosophy . He took a leading
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part in the
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work carried on in
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Chapel Street, Lamb's Conduit Street . In 1878 he declined to admit the authority of
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Pierre Laffitte, Comte's official successor, and the result was a split in the ranks of English Positivism, Frederic Harrison, Dr J . H . Bridges and Professor E . Beesly forming a
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separate society at Newton Hall, Fetter Lane . Congreve translated several of Comte's
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works, and in 1874 published a large
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volume of essays, in which he advocated Comte's view that it was the duty of
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Great Britain to renounce her
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foreign possessions . He was a man of high character, courtly manners and great intellectual capacity . He died at
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Hampstead on the 5th of
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July 1899 .

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