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===Positivism=== In the 1850s, [[Auguste Comte]], the Father of Sociology, founded [[Positivism]], a [[Religion of Humanity|"religion of humanity"]].<ref name="Humanism as the Next Step">{{cite web | title=Humanism as the Next Step | url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/publications/morain/chapter-8.html | access-date=June 25, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060614195856/http://www.americanhumanist.org/publications/morain/chapter-8.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = June 14, 2006}}</ref> Auguste Comte was a student and secretary for [[Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon]], the Father of French Socialism. Auguste Comte coined the term "altruism". The BBC notes "While atheism is merely the absence of belief, humanism is a positive attitude to the world, centered on human experience, thought, and hopes."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/atheism/types/humanism.shtml#:~:text=Humanism%20is%20an%20approach%20to,human%20nature%20and%20experience%20alone.&text=While%20atheism%20is%20merely%20the,experience%2C%20thought%2C%20and%20hopes. | title=BBC - Religions - Atheism: Humanism }}</ref>
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