1st Edition

Herbert Spencer: Collected Writings

By Herbert Spencer Copyright 1996
490 Pages
by Routledge

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination. Until recently Spencer's posthumous reputation rested almost excusively on his social and political thought, which has itself frequently been subject to serious misrepresentation. But historians of ideas now... Read more

Vol I: The Development of Hypothesis, Progress: Its Law and Cause, Transcendental Physiology, The Nebular Hypothesis, Illogical Geology, Bain on the Emotions and the Will, The Social Organism, The Origin of Animal Worship, Morals and Moral Sentiments, The Comparative Psychology of Man, Mr Martineau on Evolution, The Factors of Organic Evolution

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Herbert Spencer