 After Clotilde’s death in 1846, positivism was transformed into “complete positivism”, which is ‘continuous dominance of the heart’ (la prépondérance continue du Coeur). ‘We tire of thinking and even of acting; we never tire of loving’, as the dedication to the System put it. Positivism transformed science into philosophy; complete positivism now transforms philosophy into religion. The question whether such a move is consistent with Comte’s former ideas and more generally with positivism was asked very early. Mill and Littré answered negatively and complete positivism was never very popular.