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Philosophy
First Principles
English BooksWhale Edition by Herbert Spencer
A Victorian synthesis of philosophy, science, evolution, knowledge, and social thought.
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First Principles
First Principles sets out Herbert Spencer’s attempt to organize knowledge through evolution, causation, matter, motion, and the limits of human understanding. This edition serves readers interested in nineteenth-century philosophy, science, sociology, and intellectual history.
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Herbert Spencer died in 1903, and First Principles was first published in 1862. These dates support the public-domain basis for the source text used in this English edition.
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Table of contents
Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02PART I.
- 03THE UNKNOWABLE.
- 04CHAPTER I.
- 05RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
- 06CHAPTER II.
- 07CHAPTER III.
- 08CHAPTER IV.
- 09CHAPTER V.
- 10PART II.
- 11CHAPTER I.
- 12CHAPTER II.
- 13CHAPTER III.
- 14CHAPTER IV.
- 15CHAPTER V.
- 16CHAPTER VI.
- 17CHAPTER VII.
- 18CHAPTER VIII.
- 19CHAPTER IX.
- 20CHAPTER X.
- 21CHAPTER XI.
- 22CHAPTER XII.
- 23CHAPTER XIII.
- 24CHAPTER XIV.
- 25CHAPTER XV.
- 26CHAPTER XVI.
- 27CHAPTER XVII.
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