David Croly was a devoted [[Auguste Comte|Comtist]], who attempted to popularize the concepts of [[Positivism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLr_AwAAQBAJ|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive|date=2014|publisher=[[Princeton University]] Press|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0691612690|pages=22-24}}</ref>. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro'', which turned out to be a hoax<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kadish |first1=Philip |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/opinion/kadish-lincoln-hoax/ |title=The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln |work=[[CNN]] |date=February 18, 2014 }}</ref>. | David Croly was a devoted [[Auguste Comte|Comtist]], who attempted to popularize the concepts of [[Positivism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLr_AwAAQBAJ|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive|date=2014|publisher=[[Princeton University]] Press|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0691612690|pages=22-24}}</ref>. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro'', which turned out to be a hoax<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kadish |first1=Philip |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/opinion/kadish-lincoln-hoax/ |title=The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln |work=[[CNN]] |date=February 18, 2014 }}</ref>. |