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Facts and comments / Herbert Spencer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Herbert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D Appleton & Company, 1902.
- Summary:
- "During the years spent in writing various systematic works, there have from time to time arisen ideas not fitted for incorporation in them. Many of these have found places in articles published in reviews, and are now collected together in the three volumes of my essays. But there remain a number which have not yet found expression: some of them relatively trivial, some of more interest, and some which I think are important. I have felt reluctant to let these pass unrecorded, and hence during the last two years, at intervals now long and now short, have set them down in the following pages. Possibly to a second edition I shall make some small additions, but, be this as it may, the volume herewith issued I can say with certainty will be my last"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
- Contents:
- A business principle
- Some regrets
- A problem
- A few Americanisms
- Presence of mind
- The corruption of music
- Spontaneous reform
- Feeling versus intellect
- The purpose of art
- Some questions
- The origin of music
- Developed music
- Estimates of men
- State education
- The closing hours
- Style
- Meyerbeer
- The pursuit of prettiness
- Patriotism
- Some light on use-inheritance
- Party government
- Exaggerations and mis-statements
- Imperialism and slavery
- Re-barbarization
- Regimentation
- Weather forecasts
- The regressive multiplication of causes
- Sanitation in theory and practice
- Gymnastics
- Euthanasia
- The reform of company-law
- Some musical heresies
- Distinguished dissenters
- Barbaric art
- Vaccination
- Perverted history
- Grammar
- What should the skeptic say to believers?
- Ultimate questions?
- Appendix
- Some experiences of criticism.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (D Appleton & Company, viewed June 2, 2023).
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