He believed in God, an absolute God, and he accepted an absolute system of law that like God did not change. The absolute system of Blackstone was discarded were discarded in favor of relative or situational law by 1940. Engles and Marx brought Humanism to nation wide birth for the Bolshevik Revolution. After reading and correspondence with Europe, John Dewey, the Father of Modern Education John Dewey, traveled to Europe, China, and Turkey in the early nineteen thirties. Upon his return to America, he helped author and did sign the Humanist Manifesto which was the Americanized version of the Communist Manifesto penned by Karl Marx.
Positivism says that what is a perceived gain, a plus, is a good thing.
The plus or minus is measured from the relative point of view of an individual, not any absolute standard . Each person establishes his own system of values as he sees fit with no absolutes or external authorities. This results in calling them bigots who would impose any external authority or absolute standard of reference to right and wrong. It allows for saying the end justifies whatever means it takes to get a gain. So long as that gain seems to me as being a positive gain relative to how I see things, that's what I call good.