Illustrations of universal progress
Subtitle: a series of discussions
By: by Herbert Spencerl; with a notice of Spencer's "New system of philosophy."
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Published: 1867
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
Copyright date: 1864
Subjects: Science; Political science; Philosophy
Notes: First published in English periodicals, chiefly the quarterly reviews, and issued in London with several other papers, under the title of "Essays, scientific, political and speculative", first and second series, 1857-1863. cf. Pref.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Progress: its law and cause.- Manners and fashion.- aThe genesis of science.- The physiology of laughter.- The origin and function of music.- The nebular hypothesis.- Bain on the emotions and the will.- Illogical geology.- The development hypothesis.- The social organism.- Use and beauty.- The sources of architectural types.- The use of anthropomorphism.