Positivism... may be regarded as a secularized form of the systematic theology which had been considered the crown of all the sciences in medieval European universities. (William H. McNeill)

Positivism... may be regarded as a secularized form of the systematic theology which had been considered the crown of all the sciences in medieval European universities.

William H. McNeill

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