 Usually, when dealing with positivist religion, one focuses on the features classically associated with religion, as we have just done. It is then easy to miss one of its most original aspects, namely a purely sociological approach (Bourdeau 2020). From this point of view, three types of societies must be distinguished: the family, the State (Greek polis, Latin Civitas), and the Church. The State is made up of families, the Church is made up of States. Each is based on different ties: affective for the first, active for the second, and intellectual for the third. Each also has a different relationship to space. Hence the necessity to separate the State and the Church. The religious society is by its nature catholic, in the sense of universal, and therefore has no boundaries other than those of the planet; the surface of a State meets different demands, which impose rather strict geographic limits. The contrast between French political history and English political history, which was a common place in Comte’s time (see for instance Tocqueville or Guizot; it is already present in Montesquieu and Voltaire) illustrates the point: there is no separation of Church and State in Great Britain, in that sense that the Queen is also the head of the Anglican Church. Nevertheless, its main application is related to the issue: centralization against local powers, which is another aspect of the spatial dimension of politics. Of the two political models constantly confronted in the Course, Comte clearly prefers the French one. Its characteristic alliance of the monarchy with the people against the aristocracy was accompanied by a centralization that the Revolution contented itself with consolidating. One might therefore be led to believe that Comte was a partisan of centralized political (that is: temporal) power, whereas the contrary was in fact the case, as he proposed to divide France into seventeen administrative regions, more or less equivalent to the old provinces (1851, v. 4, 421; Vernon 1984). Centralization applies only to the spiritual power.