Illustrations of universal progress a series of discussions / by Herbert Spencer ; with a notice of Spencer's "new system of philosophy".

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Political science.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6], [v]-xxiv, [1], 446, ix, viii, [8] p.).

Other Title:

Illustrations of universal progress

Essays, scientific, political and speculative.

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1864.

Contents:

Progress : its law and cause

Manners and fashion

The genesis of science

The physiology of laughter

The origin and function of music

The nebular hypothesis

Bain on the emotions and the will

Illogical geology

The development hypothesis

The social organism

Use and beauty

The sources of architectural types

The use of anthropomorphism.

Notes:

First published in English periodicals, chiefly the quarterly reviews, and issued in London with several other papers, under the title of "Essays, scientific, political and speculative", first and second series, 1857-1863.--Cf. Pref.

Advertising: p. [6], 1st count; [8] p., 7th count.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

OCLC:

609508941