The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip Synopsis

Excerpt from The Black Tulip: Translated From the French by A. J. O'connor

Alas for generalizations when the sign-post is mis taken for the road! Comte's had been before the world but twenty-four years, when Martineau, writ ing amid the British excitement over the Papal Aggression, ' was able to point out with an ironic chuckle that the most practical nation of Europe the nation in which the high-priest of inductive science was Chancellor nearly two centuries and a half ago signs requisitions about the grace of baptism, holds county meetings on the doctrine of Apostolicity, de mands leading articles on the remission of sins, and listens in crowded town halls to the canon law and the Tridentine decrees. M. Comte's law stands aghast.

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