Ordem e Progresso on the Brazilian flag is a fragment of Comte's slogan — l'amour pour principe et l'ordre pour base; le progres pour but, love as the principle, order as the basis, progress as the end — with the love removed. It was placed there in 1889 at the founding of the republic by Raimundo Teixeira Mendes, who ran the Igreja Positivista do Brasil with Miguel Lemos and designed the flag. Brazilian positivism was politically serious in a way the movement never managed in Europe: it shaped the republican officer corps, the separation of church and state, and early labour legislation. That a national flag flown by two hundred million people carries a truncated motto from a nineteenth-century church of Humanity is the single strangest surviving fact about this line.