Bruce Caldwell wrote: 
"1. In chapter 1, p. 16, Hayek has the following sentence:  As is so often 
true, the nature of our civilization has been seen more clearly by its 
enemies than by most of its friends: "the perennial Western malady, the 
revolt of the individual against the species,"as that nineteenth-century 
totalitarian, Auguste Comte, has described it, was indeed the force which 
built our civilization. 
 
Does anyone know the origin of the quote from Comte?" 
 
 
Charles Maurras, in _Romantisme et R=E9volution_ (1922), notes that Comte defined the
Reformation as "a systematic [act of] sedition of the individual against the species."
 
Reference: Marilynne Robinson, "Heresies and real presences" at 
http://www.servetus.org/en/news-events/articulos/20020701.htm 
 
Best wishes for the New Year. 
 
Yuri Tulupenko