This 3-volume book features a comprehensive collection of most significant scientific, political and speculative essays by Herbert Spencer. The first volume is made up of essays in which the idea of e
This 3-volume book features a comprehensive collection of most significant scientific, political and speculative essays by Herbert Spencer. The first volume is made up of essays in which the idea of evolution, general or special is dominant. In the second volume essays dealing with philosophical questions, with abstract and concrete science, and with aesthetics, are brought together; but though all of them are tacitly evolutionary, their evolutionism is an incidental rather than a necessary trait. The ethical, political, and social essays composing the third volume, though mostly written from the evolution point of view, have for their more immediate purposes the enunciation of doctrines which are directly practical in their bearings.Volume 1:The Development HypothesisProgress: Its Law and CauseTranscendental PhysiologyThe Nebular HypothesisIllogical GeologyBain on the Emotions and the WillThe Social OrganismThe Origin of Animal WorshipMorals and Moral SentimentsThe Comparative Psychology of ManMr. Martineau on EvolutionThe Factors of Organic EvolutionVolume 2:The Genesis of ScienceThe Classification of the SciencesReasons for Dissenting From the Philosophy of M. ComteOn Laws in General, and the Order of Their DiscoveryThe Valuation of EvidenceWhat is Electricity?Mill versus Hamilton – The Test of TruthReplies to CriticismsProf. Green's ExplanationsThe Philosophy of StyleUse and BeautyThe Sources of Architectural TypesGracefulnessPersonal BeautyThe Origin and Function of MusicThe Physiology of LaughterVolume 3:Manners and FashionRailway Morals and Railway PolicyThe Morals of TradePrison-ethicsThe Ethics of KantAbsolute Political EthicsOver-legislationRepresentative Government – What is It Good for?State-tamperings With Money and BanksParliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safeguards"The Collective Wisdom"Political FetichismSpecialized AdministrationFrom Freedom to BondageThe Americans
