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Essays

by Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

21 chapters, about 135,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. PREFACE 500 words
3. THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS. 2,000 words
4. PROGRESS: ITS LAW AND CAUSE. 17,000 words
5. TRANSCENDENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. 13,100 words
6. THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS. 12,400 words
7. FOOTNOTES: 300 words
8. ADDENDA. 7,700 words
9. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SUN. 2,000 words
10. ILLOGICAL GEOLOGY. 14,000 words
11. BAIN ON THE EMOTIONS AND THE WILL. 7,000 words
12. THE SOCIAL ORGANISM. 12,700 words
13. THE ORIGIN OF ANIMAL WORSHIP. 4,800 words
14. FOOTNOTES: 600 words
15. MORALS AND MORAL SENTIMENTS. 5,900 words
16. THE COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN. 5,300 words
17. MR. MARTINEAU ON EVOLUTION. 4,600 words
18. I. 10,800 words
19. II. 10,600 words
20. NOTE. 600 words
21. A COUNTER-CRITICISM. 3,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Analogy
• Cerebral cortex
• Chemist
• Corpus callosum
• Correlation
• Ellipse
• Emotion
• Essays (Francis Bacon)
• Fossil
• Heat
• Natural selection
• Painting
• Physiology
• Planet
• Race (human categorization)
• Ratio
• Social organization
• Solar System
• Stratum (linguistics)
• Sun

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