 
 <prompt> ```Who be dey for di close group of George Eliot? Based on di previous question, write one context wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context:``` <response>: Eliot and her circle, wey include her companion George Henry Lewes (the biographer of Goethe) and the abolitionist and social theorist Harriet Martineau, bin dey heavily influenced by the positivism of Auguste Comte, wey Martineau don translate. Comte bin don propose an atheistic culte wey dey based on human principles – a secular Religion of Humanity (wey dey worship the dead, since most humans wey don ever live don die), complete with holidays and liturgy, wey dey modeled on the rituals of wetin dem see as a discredited and dilapidated Catholicism. Although Comte's English followers, like Eliot and Martineau, mostly reject the full gloomy panoply of im system, dem like the idea of a religion of humanity. Comte's austere vision of the universe, im command to "vivre pour altrui" ("live for others", from which the word "altruism" come), and im idealisation of women dey show for the works of Victorian novelists and poets from George Eliot and Matthew Arnold to Thomas Hardy. 