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Essays : scientific, political, and speculative
Title
Essays : scientific, political, and speculative / by Herbert Spencer.
Edition
Library ed.
Authorized ed.
Published
New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1891.
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 21 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2173: Bookplate: Charles Sheldon. Autograph: C.A. Sheldon. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.
Notes
"Library edition, containing seven essays not before republished and various other additions."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The development 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
The genesis of science
The classification of the sciences
Reasons for dissenting from the philosophy of M. Comte
On Laws in general, and the order of their discovery
The valuation of evcidence
What is electricity?
Mill versus Hamilton : the test of truth
Replies to criticisms
Prof. Green's explanations.
(cont.) The Philosophy of style
Use and beauty
The sources of architectural types
Gracefulness
Personal beauty
The origin and function of music
The physiology of laughter
Manners and fashion
Railway morals and railway policy
The morals of trade
Prison-ethics
The ethics of Kant
Absolute political ethics
Over-legislation
Representative government : what is it good for?
State-tamperings with money and banks
Parliamentary reform : the dangers and the safeguards
"The collective wisdom"
Political fetichism
Specialized administration
From freedom to bondage
The Americans.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Essays.
Also listed under
Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States New York (State) New York.
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