Illustrations of universal progress
Subtitle: a series of discussions
By: by Herbert Spencer.
Contributors: Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Published: 1864
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Science; Political science; Philosophy
Notes: "With a notice of Spencer's 'New system of philosophy.'"

LC copy inscribed: O.W. Holmes, Beverly Farms. Has bookplate of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. with image of chambered nautilus. Has inscription: Dr. O.W. Holmes, with the respects of E.L. Zammers[?].
Table of contents: title: Progress : its law and cause; title: Manners and fashion; title: The genesis of science; title: The physiology of laughter; title: The origin and function of music; title: The nebular hypothesis; title: Brain on the emotions and the will; title: Illogical geology; title: The development hypothesis; title: The social organism; title: Use and beauty; title: The sources of architectural types; title: The use of anthropomorphism.