# Mr. Frederic Harrison — Heretics character guide

> Mr. Frederic Harrison in Heretics by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-heretics

## Who they are

English historian and positivist, mentioned in intellectual debates.

## In the story

### [Christmas and the Aesthetes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/heretics_se/chapters/vi-christmas-and-the-aesthetes)

Harrison represents the English Positivists who reject Comte's rituals, which Chesterton argues are the only sensible part of Comtism.

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