The family is the most elementary social unity and the prototype of all other human associations, for these evolve from family and kinship groups. The collective organism is essentially composed of families which are its true elements, of classes and castes which form its true tissue, and finally of cities and town which are its true organs. Language is the vessel in which the thought of preceding generations, the culture of our ancestors, is stored. By participating in a linguistic universe, we are part of a linguistic Tic community. Language binds us to our fellows and same time connects us to the ton chain that links a living community to its remote ancestors.
Human society has more dead than living members.
Comte's aim was to create a naturalistic science of society, which would both explain the past development of mankind and predict its future course. In addition to building a science capable of explaining the laws of motion that govern humanity over time, Comte attempted to formulate the conditions that account for social stability at any given historical moment. The society of man, Comte taught, must be studied in the same scientific manner as the world of nature. It is subject to basic laws just as is the rest of the cosmos, even though it presents added complexities. Natural science, Comte argued, had succeeded in establishing the lawfulness of natural phenomena.