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First Principles of a New system of Philosophy

  
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Works by the same author Published by D. Appleton & co.
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF HERBERT SPENCER'S FIRST PRINCIPLES
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION OF HERBERT SPENCER'S FIRST PRINCIPLES
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PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
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PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION OF HERBERT SPENCER'S FIRST PRINCIPLES
  
CONTENTS

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First Principles by Herbert Spencer 1862
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Chapter 1 Religion and Science
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Chapter 2 Ultimate Religious Ideas
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Chapter 3 Ultimate Scientific Ideas
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Chapter 4 The Relativity of all Knowledge
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Chapter 5 The Reconciliation
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Postscript to Part I
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Part II Laws of the Knowable
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Chapter 1 Philosophy Defined
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Chapter 2 The Data of Philosophy
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Chapter 3 Space, Time, Matter, Motion, and Force
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Chapter 4 The Indestructibility of Matter
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Chapter 5 The Continuity of Motion
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Chapter 6 The Persistence of Force
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Chapter 7 The Persistence of Relation Among Forces
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Chapter 8 The Transformation and Equivalence of Forces
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Chapter 9 The Direction of Motion
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Chapter 10 The Rhythm of Motion
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Chapter 11 Recapitulation, Criticism, and Recommencement
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Chapter 12 Evolution and Dissolution
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Chapter 13 Simple and Compound Evolution
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Chapter 14 The Law of Evolution
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Chapter 15 The Law of Evolution continued
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Chapter 16 The Law of Evolution continued
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Chapter 17 The Law of Evolution concluded
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Chapter 18 The Interpretation of Evolution
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Chapter 19 The Instability of the Homogenous Exemplifying Instability at Large
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Chapter 20 The Multiplication of Effects
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Chapter 21 Segregation
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Chapter 22 Equilibration
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Chapter 23 Dissolution
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Chapter 24 Summary and Conclusion

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APPENDIX A. NOTE TO CHAPTERS XVII AND XIX.
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APPENDIX B. DEALING WITH CERTAIN CRITICISMS.
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APPENDIX C. DEALING WITH SOME CRITICISMS OF PROF. WARD.
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APPENDIX D. THE GENESIS OF GASEOUS NUBULÆ
  
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PROSPECTUS TO HERBERT SPENCER'S FIRST PRINCIPLES
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CONTENTS

    PART I.—THE UNKNOWABLE

  • I.—RELIGION AND SCIENCE...........................3
  • II.—ULTIMATE RELIGIOUS IDEAS.....................25
  • III.—ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS...................47
  • IV.—THE RELATIVITY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE..............68
  • V.—THE RECONCILIATION............................98

    PART II.—LAWS OF THE KNOWABLE

  • I.—LAWS IN GENERAL..............................127
  • II.—THE LAW OF EVOLUTION........................146
  • III—THE LAW OF EVOLUTION (CONTINUED)............175
  • IV.—THE CAUSES OF EVOLUTION.....................219
  • V.—SPACE, TIME, MATTER, MOTION, AND FORCE.......224
  • VI.—THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF MATTER.............238
  • VII.—THE CONTINUITY OF MOTION...................246
  • VIII.—THE PERSISTENCE OF FORCE..................251
  • IX.—THE CORRELATION AND EQUIVALENCE OF FORCES...259
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  • X.—THE DIRECTION OF MOTION......................286
  • XI.—THE RHYTHM OF MOTION........................313
  • XII.—THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO EVOLUTION......335
  • XIII.—THE INSTABILITY OF THE HOMOGENEOUS........358
  • XIV.— THE MULTIPLICATION OF EFFECTS.............388
  • XV.—DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION.............416
  • XVI.—EQUILIBRATION..............................440
  • XVII.—SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION....................487
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