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What interrupted Auguste Comte’s first series of lectures in 1826?
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Auguste Comte’s first series of lectures on his "system of positive philosophy," which began in 1826 for a private audience, was interrupted when he suffered a serious nervous breakdown. He eventually recovered and successfully resumed the lecture series in 1828–29.1