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t is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.

The condition of being compatriots.

Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.

A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. Stewart.

The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] C. Kingsley.

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.

The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god. S. W. Williams.

That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

See Congruity.

The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherene to a constitution or constitutional government. Carlyle.

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.

is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

he policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.

Materialism. Cudworth.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.