First Principles (1867)

Spencer attempts a synthesis of his thought and expounds the first systematic theory of evolution in this work.
First Principles, 2nd ed. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1867).
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- Author: Herbert Spencer
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- PART I.
- CHAPTER I.: RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
- CHAPTER II.: ULTIMATE RELIGIOUS IDEAS.
- CHAPTER III.: ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS.
- CHAPTER IV.: THE RELATIVITY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE.
- CHAPTER V.: THE RECONCILIATION.
- PART II.: THE KNOWABLE.
- CHAPTER I.: PHILOSOPHY DEFINED.
- CHAPTER II.: THE DATA OF PHILOSOPHY.
- CHAPTER III.: SPACE, TIME, MATTER, MOTION, AND FORCE.
- CHAPTER IV.: THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF MATTER.
- CHAPTER V.: THE CONTINUITY OF MOTION.
- CHAPTER VI.: THE PERSISTENCE OF FORCE.∗
- CHAPTER VII.: THE PERSISTENCE OF RELATIONS AMONG FORCES.
- CHAPTER VIII.: THE TRANSFORMATION AND EQUIVALENCE OF FORCES.
- CHAPTER IX.: THE DIRECTION OF MOTION.
- CHAPTER X.: THE RHYTHM OF MOTION.
- CHAPTER XI.: RECAPITULATION, CRITICISM, AND RECOMMENCEMENT.
- CHAPTER XII.: EVOLUTION AND DISSOLUTION.
- CHAPTER XIII.: SIMPLE AND COMPOUND EVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER XIV.: THE LAW OF EVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER XV.: THE LAW OF EVOLUTION CONTINUED.
- CHAPTER XVI.: THE LAW OF EVOLUTION CONTINUED.
- CHAPTER XVII.: THE LAW OF EVOLUTION CONCLUDED.
- CHAPTER XVIII.: THE INTERPRETATION OF EVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER XIX.: THE INSTABILITY OF THE HOMOGENEOUS.∗
- CHAPTER XX.: THE MULTIPLICATION OF EFFECTS.
- CHAPTER XXI.: SEGREGATION.
- CHAPTER XXII.: EQUILIBRATION.
- CHAPTER XXIII.: DISSOLUTION.
- CHAPTER XXIV.: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.
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