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

Author
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : D. Appleton, 1870.
Description
xxiv, 451 p. ; 21 cm.

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    • 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.
    • Includes index.
    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.
    OCLC
    9068627
    RCP
    N - S
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