First Principles
by Herbert Spencer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
- Subject
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 55046
- Release Date
- July 5, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FIRST PRINCIPLES.
- 2.PREFACE. — A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. — FIRST PRINCIPLES. — THE PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. — Vol. I. — Vol. II. — THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY. — Vol. I. — Vol. II. — THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY. — Vol. I. — Vol. II. — Vol. III. — THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY. — Vol. I. — Vol. II.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.PART I. THE UNKNOWABLE. — 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.
- 5.PART II. LAWS OF THE KNOWABLE. — CHAPTER I. LAWS IN GENERAL. — CHAPTER II. THE LAW OF EVOLUTION. [8] — CHAPTER III. THE LAW OF EVOLUTION, CONTINUED. — CHAPTER IV. THE CAUSES OF EVOLUTION. — CHAPTER V. SPACE, TIME, MATTER, MOTION, AND FORCE. — CHAPTER VI. THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF MATTER. — CHAPTER VII. THE CONTINUITY OF MOTION. — CHAPTER VIII. THE PERSISTENCE OF FORCE. [12] — CHAPTER IX. THE CORRELATION AND EQUIVALENCE OF FORCES. — CHAPTER X. THE DIRECTION OF MOTION. — CHAPTER XI. THE RHYTHM OF MOTION. — CHAPTER XII. THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO EVOLUTION. — CHAPTER XIII. THE INSTABILITY OF THE HOMOGENEOUS. [16] — CHAPTER XIV. THE MULTIPLICATION OF EFFECTS. — CHAPTER XV. DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION. — CHAPTER XVI. EQUILIBRATION. — CHAPTER XVII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.
- 6.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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