Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, 3 vols.

Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 2 Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, vol. 3 Title Page Original Table of Contents or First Page.

In the second volume essays dealing with philosophical questions, with abstract and concrete science, and with aesthetics, are brought together; but though all of them are tacitly evolutionary, their evolutionism is an incidental rather than a necessary trait.

Herbert Spencer, 'Origin and Function of Music' (1875), reprinted in Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, Library Edititon, Containing Seven Essays Not Before Republished, Vol. II (Edinburgh, 1891).

Essays, scientific, political, and speculative. By 1820-1903. Herbert Spencer and 1857-1910. F. Howard (Frederick Howard) Collins. Abstract. government--what is it good for? State-tamperings with money and banks.. Railway morals and railway policy. The morals of trade. Prison-ethics. The ethics of Kant. Absolute political ethics. Over.

Essays, scientific, political, and speculative, By 1820-1903. Herbert Spencer and 1857-1910. F. Howard (Frederick Howard) Collins. Abstract. III. Manners and fashion.. The ethics of Kant. Absolute political ethics. Over-legislation. Representative government - what is it good for ? State-tamperings with money and banks. Parliamentary reform.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903. Essays, scientific, political, and speculative. New York, D. Appleton, 1891.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903. Essays, scientific, political, and speculative. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1904.

Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903. Essays, scientific, political, and speculative. New York, D. Appleton, 1907.

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Editions for Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol 2: 1142011828 (Paperback published in 2010), 144375823X (Paperback published in 2008), 14.

Editions for Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol 3: 1428650636 (Paperback published in 2006), 0526938773 (Hardcover published in 2019), 05.