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Synopsis
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher; prominent classical liberal political theorist; and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human ture and societies. He is best known for coining the phrase, "survival of the fittest, " which he did in Principles of Biology (1864). He worked as a civil engineer during the railway boom of the late 1830s, while also devoting much of his time to writing for provincial journals that were nonconformist in their religion and radical in their politics. From 1848 to 1853 he served as sub-editor on the free-trade journal The Economist during which time he published his first book, Social Statics (1851). Spencer's second book the Principles of Psychology, published in 1855 explored a physiological basis for psychology. Despite Spencer's early struggles to establish himself as a writer, by the 1870s he had become the most famous philosopher of the age. Amongst his other works are: First Principles of a New System of Philosophy (1862), The Data of Ethics (1879) and Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1911).
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CHAPTER I. RELIGION AND SCIENCE. § 1. 'V E too often forget that not only is there "a soul of goodness in things eyil," but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. 'Vhile many admit the abstract probability that a falsity has usually a nucleus of reality, few bear this abstract probability in mind, when passing judgment on the opinions of others. A belief that is finall) proved to be grossly at variance 'with fact, is cast aside with indignation or contempt; and in the heat of antagonism scarcely any on6 inquires what there was in this belief which commended it to men's minds. Yet there must have been something. And there is reason to suspect that this something was its correspondence with certain of their experi8llccs: an extremely limited or vague correspondence perhaps; but still, a correspondence. Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such :::ltual occ'!!!'!'ence, t
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PART I-TIlE UNKNOvV ABLE; CllAP; l-RELIG [ON AND SCIENCll •••; 1I-'ULTIMATE RELIGIOUS IDEAS; IlL-ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS; IV-THE RELATIVITY OF ALL KN01VLEDGE; V-TIlE RECONCILIATION •••; r ART II-'rIlE KNOvV ABLE; ellAP; I-PIIILOSOPIlY DEFINED; n-TIm DATA Ol!' PHILOSOPHY ; IlI-SP_CE, TIME, lIATTER, MOTION, AN:Q ro:rCE; IV-TIlE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF lITATTEIl •••; V-TIlE CONTINUITY OF lIIOTION ; VI-TIlE PERSISTENCE OF FORCE; ; ; VU-THE PERSISTENCE OF RELATIONS AMONG FORCES; VIll-TIlE TRANSFORMATION AND EQUIVALENCE OF FORCES; IX-TIIE DIRECTION OF lIIOTION •••; X-TIlE RIIYTIDI OF lIIOTION •••; PAGE; 3; 25; 47; G8; 08; PAGE; 127; 135; 158; 172; ISO; 185; 103; 107; 222; 250; XL-RECAPITULATION, CRI'l'ICISlII, AND RECOMl'lIENCEMEN'f 272; XII-EVOLUTION AND DISSOLUTION 278; XX CO~TENl'S; X£II-SIMPLE AND C0::lIPOUND EVOLUTION 287; XIV-TIIE LAW OF EVOLUTION 307; XV-TIIE LAW OF EVOLUTION CONTINUED 329; XVI-TITE LAW OF EVOLUTION CONTINUED
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