Illustrations of universal progress
Subtitle: a series of discussions
By: by Herbert Spencer ; with a notice of Spencer's "new system of philosophy"
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Published: 1864
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Science; Political science; Philosophy
Other titles: Essays, scientific, political and speculative.
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.

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Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
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: Bain 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.