 As in Saint-Simon's industrial utopianism, Comte's vision—later well expressed by modernity—posed science as the only objectively true knowledge and thus also industrial society's secular spiritualism, science offering the political and ethical guide.Positivism reached Britain well after British lead in science was over.British positivism, found in Victorian ethics of utilitarianism, for instance J S Mill's and later in Herbert Spencer's social evolutionism, associated science with moral improvement, but rejected science as political leadership.