PPT Slide
The motto, written in green, “Order and Progress” is a summary of the motto of Auguste Comte, creator of Positivism, of which Teixeira Mendes was a follower. The complete motto was “Love as the principle and order as the base, progress as the goal.” According to Mendes himself, the objective of the motto was to show that the revolution “did not just abolish the monarchy” but that it aspired “to create a fatherland of true brothers, giving to Order and Progress all the guarantees that history has shown to be required for its permanent harmony.”