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• Herbert Spencer
• Introduction
• Select Bibliography
• Original Preface to Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical
• Spencer’s Essays
• Part I—: On Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical
• What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?
• Intellectual Education
• Moral Education
• Physical Education
• Part II: Essays On Kindred Subjects
• Progress: Its Law and Cause 1
• On Manners and Fashion 1
• On the Genesis of Science 1
• On the Physiology of Laughter 1
• On the Origin and Function of Music 1

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

works.The Proper Sphere of Government, 1843; Social Statics, 1850; Theory of Population (Westminster Review), April 1852; The Development of Hypothesis (The Leader), 20th March 1852; The Ultimate Laws of Physiology (National Review), April 1857; Essays, Scientific, Political and Speculative, 2 vols., 1858-63; Education, 1861; A System of Synthetic Philosophy (12 vols., 1862-96), made up as follows: First Principles, 1862; Principles of Biology, 2 vols., 1864-7; Principles of Psychology, 2 vols., 1870-2; Principles of Sociology, 3 vols., 1876-96; Ceremonial Institutions, 1879; Principles of Morality, 2 vols., 1879-93 (vol. i, part 1 published as Data of Ethics, 1879; part 4 as Justice, 1891); Political Institutions, 1882. Meanwhile the following works were also published: The Classification of the Sciences, 1864; The Study of Sociology, 1872; Descriptive Sociology, 1873; The Man versus the State, 1884; The Factors of Organic Evolution, 1887; The Inadequacy of Natural Selection, 1893. Spencer’s Autobiography appeared posthumously, 2 vols., 1904.

collected edition. Nineteen volumes, 1861-1902.

biography and criticism. T. Funk-Brentano, Les Sophistes grecs et les Sophistes contemporains (Mill and Spencer), 1879; F. H. Collins, An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy, 1889; H. Sidgwick, Lectures on the Ethics of Green, Spencer and Martineau, 1902; ‘The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer’ (in The Philosophy of Kant and Other Lectures, 1905); D. Duncan, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Spencer, 1904; Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer, 1908; J. Royce, Herbert Spencer. An Estimate and a Review, 1904; J. A. Thomson, Herbert Spencer, 1906; W. H. Hudson, Herbert Spencer, 1916; J. Rumney, Herbert Spencer’s Sociology, 1934; R. C. K. Ensor, Some Reflections on Herbert Spencer’s Doctrine, 1946.