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This week's featured author pagesIsidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (1798 - 1857) -- the first French positivist, Comte is famous for his doctrine of the progress of society
Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950) -- Political activist, Lawyer, and Poet.
Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) -- American clergyman and writer
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) -- the founder of modern Western philosophy
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 - 1883) -- a philosopher and social theorist, Marx saw the society's future in the realisation of communism