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• “herbert Spencer: a Century Later,” By Tibor R. Machan
• The Principles of Ethics. General Preface
• Preface to Volume I
• Preface to Part I. (when First Issued Separately)
• Part I.: The Data of Ethics
• Chapter 1.: Conduct In General
• Chapter 2.: The Evolution of Conduct
• Chapter 3.: Good and Bad Conduct
• Chapter 4.: Ways of Judging Conduct
• Chapter 5.: The Physical View
• Chapter 6.: The Biological View
• Chapter 7.: The Psychological View
• Chapter 8.: The Sociological View
• Chapter 9.: Criticisms and Explanations
• Chapter 10.: The Relativity of Pains and Pleasures
• Chapter 11.: Egoism Versus Altruism
• Chapter 12.: Altruism Versus Egoism
• Chapter 13.: Trial and Compromise
• Chapter 14.: Conciliation
• Chapter 15.: Absolute and Relative Ethics
• Chapter 16.: The Scope of Ethics
• Appendix to Part I. The Conciliation
• Part II.: The Inductions of Ethics
• Chapter 1.: The Confusion of Ethical Thought
• Chapter 2.: What Ideas and Sentiments Are Ethical?
• Chapter 3.: Aggression
• Chapter 4.: Robbery
• Chapter 5.: Revenge
• Chapter 6.: Justice
• Chapter 7.: Generosity
• Chapter 8.: Humanity
• Chapter 9.: Veracity
• Chapter 10.: Obedience
• Chapter 11.: Industry
• Chapter 12.: Temperance
• Chapter 13.: Chastity
• Chapter 14.: Summary of Inductions
• Part III.: The Ethics of Individual Life
• Chapter 1.: Introductory
• Chapter 2.: Activity
• Chapter 3.: Rest
• Chapter 4.: Nutrition
• Chapter 5.: Stimulation
• Chapter 6.: Culture
• Chapter 7.: Amusements
• Chapter 8.: Marriage
• Chapter 9.: Parenthood
• Chapter 10.: General Conclusions
• References
• References to Volume I
• Titles of Works

Titles of Works

A.k.A.W.—Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin.

Alb.—Albitis (F.) The Morality of All Nations. 1850.

Alex.—Alexander (G.G.) Confucius, the Great Teacher. 1890.

Allen.—Allen (Wm.) and Thomson (T.R.H.) A Narrative of the Expedition to the River Niger in 1841. 2 vols. 1848.

And.—Andersson (C.J.) Lake Ngami. 1856.

Angas.—Angas (G.F) Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand. 1847.

Arist.—Aristotle’s Politics.

Arist.—Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.

As. Res—-Asiatic Researches.

Atkin.—Atkinson (T.W.) Oriental and Western Siberia. 1858.

Atkin.—Atkinson (T.W.) Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, etc. 1860.

Baines.—Baines (T.) Explorations in South-West Africa. 1864.

Baker.—Baker (Sir S.) The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. 1867.

Balf.—Balfour (E.) Cyclopoedia of India. 3rd Ed. 3 vols. 1875.

Ban.—Bancroft (H.H.) Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. 5 vols. 1875.

Barrow.—Barrow (Sir J.) Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa.

Beech.—Beecham (J.) Ashantee and the Gold Coast. 1841.

Bird.—Bird (Isabella) Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. 2 vols. 1880.

Bogle.—Bogle, Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Thibet, &c. Ed. C.R. Markham. 1876.

Boyle.—Boyle (F.) Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo. 1865.

Brace.—Brace (C.L.) Gesta Christi. 2nd Ed. 1886.

Brett.—Brett (Rev. W.H.) The Indian Tribes of Guiana. 1868.

Browne.—Browne (Sir T.) Religio Medici. 1656.

Bruce.—Bruce (J.) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. 1804.

Bruch.—Bruch (J. Fr.) Weisheitslehre der Hebräer. Strassburg, 1851.

Buch.—Buch (M.) Die Wotjäken. Helsingfors, 1882.

Bühler.—Bühler (G.) The Sacred Laws of the Aryas. Oxf.

Bunsen.—Bunsen (Baron C.C.J.) Egypt’s Place in Universal History. Trans. by C.H. Cottrell. 5 vols. 1848–67.

Burch.—Burchell (W.J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. 1822–4. 4 to.

Burck.—Burckhardt (J.L.) Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys. 1829. 4 to.

Burt.—Burton (R.F.) The City of the Saints, &c. 1861.

Burt.—Burton (R.F.) The Lake Regions of Central Africa. 2 vols. 1860.

Burt.—Burton (R.F.) A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. 1864.

Burt.—Burton (R.F.) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. 3 vols. 1855, etc.

Burt.—Burton (R.F.) Wit and Wisdom from West Africa. 1865.

Butler.—Butler (Maj. J.) Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam. 1855.

Caesar.—Caesar (C. Jul.) Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

Caillié.—Caillié (Réné) Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo. 2 vols.

Calc. Rev.—TheCalcutta Review.

Call.—Callaway (Rev. H.) The Religious System of the Amazulu. 3 Parts. Natal, 1869.

Camp.—Campbell (Maj.-Gen. J.) A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years’ Service amongst the Wild Tribes of Khondistan. 1864.

Cat.—Catlin (G.) Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. 2 vols. 1841.

Chalm.—Chalmers (J.) Pioneering in New Guinea. 1887.

Cieza.—Cieza de Leon (P. de) Travels, A.D. 1532–50. Trans. by C.R. Markham. 1864.

Coch.—Cochrane (J.D.) A Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary. 4th Ed. 2 vols. 1825.

Colq. —Colquhoun (A.R.) Across Chrysê. 2 vols. 1883.

Colq. —Colquhoun (A.R.) Among the Shans.

Con. —Conway (M.D.) The Sacred Anthology. 1874.

Conf. —Confucius, The Analects and The Doctrine of the Mean. (In Legge’s ChineseClassics. Vol. I.)

Cont. Rev.—The Contemporary Review.

Coop. —Cooper (T.T.) The Mishmee Hills. 1873.

Crantz. —Crantz (D.) History of Greenland. Translated. 2 vols. 1820.

Crowe. —Crowe (E.E.) The History of France. 5 vols. 1858–68.

Dalt.—Dalton (E.T.) Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal. Calc. 1872.

Dalzel.—Dalzel (A.) The History of Dahomey. 1793. 4 to.

Dasent.—Dasent (Sir G.W.) The Story of Burnt Njal. 2 vols. 186l.

Dening.—Dening (W.) The Life of Miyamoto Musashi. 2 Pts. 1887.

Diod.—Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library of, made English by G. Booth. 2 vols. 1814.

Dixon.—Dixon (W.G.) The Land of the Morning. Edin. 1882.

Drew.—Drew (F.) The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories. 1875.

Drury.—Drury (R.) Madagascar. 1729.

Dunck.—Duncker (Max) The History of Antiquity. Trans. by E. Abbott. 6 vols. 1879, etc.

Dun.—Dunlop (R.G.) Travels in Central America. 1847. 4 to.

Dym.—Dymond (J.) Essays on the Principles of Morality. 7th Edit.

Earl.—Earl (G.W.) Native Races of the Indian Archipelago: Papuans. 1853.

Edkins.—Edkms (J.) The Religious Condition of the Chinese. 1859.

Egin.—Eginhardus, Life of the Emperor Karl the Great. Trans. by W. GIaister. 1877.

Ellis.—Effis (A.B.) The Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa. 1890.

Ellis.—Effis (A.B.) The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. 1887.

Erm.—Erman (G.A.) Travels in Siberia. Trans. by Cooley. 2 vols. 1845.

Ersk.—Erskine (J.E.) Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific. 1853.

Eyre.—Eyre (E.J.) Journal of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia. 2 vols. 1845.

Falk.—Falkner (T.) A Description of Patagonia. Hereford, 1774.

Favre.—Favre (Abbé) An Account of the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula. Paris, 1865.

Fitz.—Fitzroy (Adm. R.) Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventurer and Beagle. 3 vols. 1839–40.

Fore.—Foreman (J.) The Philippine Islands. 1890.

Fors.—Forsyth (Capt. J.) Highlands of Central India. 2nd Ed.

Fort Rev.—The Fortnightly Review.

Fram.—Framjee (Dosabhoy) The Parsees. 1858.

Frank.—Franklin (Capt. J.) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea. 1823. 4 to.

Frey.—Freycinet (L.C.D. de) Voyage autour du Monde. Paris, 1827.

Fritz.—Fritzsche (O.F.) & Grimm (C.L.W.) Kurzgefasstes exegetisches Handbuch zu denApocryphen des Alten Testaments. 6 Parts. 1851–60.

Fytche.—Fytche (Gen. A.) Burma, Past and Present. 2 vols. 1878.

Galt.—Galton (F.) Narrative of an Exploration in Tropical South Africa.

Garci.—Garcilasso de la Vega, First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas [1604]. Tran. by C.R. Markham. 2 vols. 1869–71.

Gil.—Gilmour (J.) Among the Mongols.

Gind.—Gindely (A.) History of the Thirty Years’ War. Trans. by Ten Brook. 2 vols. N.Y. 1884.

Gould.—Gould (S. Baring-) Germany Present and Past. 2 vols.

Greg.—Gregory (of Tours) Histoire ecclésiastique des Francs. Translated. 3 vols. Paris, 1836–8.

Grey.—Grey (Sir G.) Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia. 2 vols. 1841.

Grif.—Griffith (W.) Journals of Travels in Assam. Calc. 1847.

Grote.—Grote (G.) History of Greece. 4th Ed. 10 vols. 1872.

Haef.—Haefkens (T.) Centraal Ameriks. Dordrecht, 1832.

Hall.—Hall (Capt. C.F.) Life with the Esquimaux. 2 vols. 1864.

Hallam.—Hallam (H.) Europe during the Middle Ages. 4th Ed. 1869.

Harris.—Harris (Sir W.C.) The Highlands of Ethiopia. 3 vols. 1844.

Haug.—Haug (M.) Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsees. 1878.

Hawke.—Hawkesworth (J.) An account of the Voyages undertaken . . . by Comm. Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, and Capt. Cook, etc. 3 vols. 1773. 4 to.

Hear.—Hearne (S.) Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort, etc. Dub. 1796.

Herr.—Herrera (A. de) The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America [1601]. Trans. by J. Stevens. 6 vols. 1725–6.

Holub.—Holub (Emil) Seven Years in South Africa. 2 vols. 1881.

Hom.—Homer, The Iliad, done into English prose by A. Lang and others. 1883.

Hutch.—Hutcheson (F.) A System of Moral Philosophy.

I.A.—The Indian Antiquary. Bombay

Irving.—Irving (Washington) Astoria. 1850.

J.A.I.—Journal of the Anthropological Institute.

J.A.S.B.—Journal of the Asiatic Society, Bengal.

J.E.S.L.—Journal of the Ethnological Society, London.

Jones.—Jones (Sir Will.) Works. 13 vols. 1807.

J.R.A.S.—Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London.

J.R.G.S.—Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London.

Jukes.—Jukes (J.B.) Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly," 1842–6. 2 vols. 1847.

Kant.—Kant (E.) Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics. Trans. by T.K. Abbott.

Keat.—Keating (W.H.) Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeck, etc. in 1823. 2 vols. 1825.

Kolben.—Kolben (P.) The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope. Trans. by Medley. 2 vols. 1731.

Kolff.—Kolff (D. H.) Voyages of the Dutch Brig the “Dourga.” Trans. by Earl. 1840.

Kotze.—Kotzebue (Otto von) NewVoyage Round the World. 1830.

Kubary.—Kubary (J.S.) Ethnographische Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Karolinischen Inselgruppe. Berlin, 1885.

Laet.—Laet (J. de) Novus Orbis. 1633.

Landa.—Landa (D. de) Relation des choses de Yucatan [1566]. Texte et Traduction par Brasseur de Bourbourg. Paris, 1864.

Lao-Tsze.—Lao-Tsze, The Tao-têh-king. Various translations.

Leber.—Leber (J.M.C.) Collection des meilleures dissertations . . . relatifs à Phistoire de France. 20 vols. Paris, 1826–38.

Lecky.—Lecky (W.E.H.) History of European Morals. 3rd Ed. 2 vols. 1877.

Legge.—Legge (James) The Chinese Classics. 5 vols. 1869, etc.

Legge.—Legge (James) The Religions of China. 1880.

Lew.—Lewin (Capt. T.H.) Wild Races of South Eastern India. 1870.

Lewis.—Lewis (Capt. M.) & Clarke, Travels to the Source of the Missouri River. 1814. 4 to.

Licht.—Uchtenstein (H.) Travels in Southern Africa in the Years 1803–1806. 2 vols. 1812–15. 4 to.

Liv.—Livingstone (D.) Missionary Travels and Researches. 1857.

Liv—Livingstone (D. & C.) Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi. 1865.

Low.—Low (Hugh) Sarawak, Its Inhabitants and Productions. 1848.

Lubb.—Lubbock (Sir J.) Pre-Historic Times. 2nd Ed.

Lyon.—Lyon (Capt. G.F.) Private Journal. 1824.

MacDon.—MacDonald (Duff) Africana. 2 vols. 1882.

Macgil.—Macgillivray (J.) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake . . . 1846–50. 2 vols. 1852.

MacGreg.—MacGregor (Gen.) Central Asia. Part I. 2 vols. Calc. 1873.

Macph.—Macpherson (Lieut.) Report on the Khonds of Ganjam and Cuttack. Calc. 1842.

Maha.—TheMahabharata. Various translations.

Mahaf.—Mahaffy (J.P.) Social Life in Greece. 1874.

Mal.—Malcolm (Sir. J.) Memoir of Central India. 1823.

Man.—Man (E.G.) Sonthalia and the Sonthals. 1867.

Manu.—TheLaws of Manu. Various translations.

Mar.—Mariner’s (W.) AnAccount of the Natives of the Tonga Islands. By J. Martin. 2 vols. 1818.

Mars.—Marsden (W.) The History cf Sumatra. 1783. 4 to.

Mart.—Martin (H.) Histoire de la France. 1884.

Massey.—Massey (W.N.) A History of England during the Reign of George III.

Mencius.—TheWorks of Mencius. (In Legge’s Chinese Classics. Vol. II.)

Mered.—Meredith (Mrs. C.L.A.) My Home in Tasmania. 2 vols.

Mich.—Michelet (J.) History of France. 2 vols. Trans. by G.H. Smith.

Mill.—Mill (J.S.) An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy. 3rd Ed. 1867.

M.J.L.S.—The Madras Journal of Literature and Science.

Moffat.—Moffat (R.) Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa. 4th Ed. 1842.

Möll.—Möllhausen (B.) Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific. 2 vols. 1858.

Mont.—Montaigne (M. de) Essays. Trans. by Cotton. 3 vols.

Monte.—Monteiro (J.J.) Angola and the River Congo, 2 vols. 1875.

Morg.—Morgan (L.H.) League of the . . . Iroquois. Roch. U.S.A. 1851.