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Illustrations of Universal Progress

by Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

22 chapters, about 133,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 200 words
2. HERBERT SPENCER. 2,800 words
3. HERBERT SPENCER. 2,400 words
4. EDITOR'S PREFACE. 200 words
5. I. PROGRESS: ITS LAW AND CAUSE. 17,800 words
6. II. MANNERS AND FASHION. 16,200 words
7. III. THE GENESIS OF SCIENCE. 23,600 words
8. IV. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LAUGHTER. 3,400 words
9. V. THE ORIGIN AND FUNCTION OF MUSIC 7,500 words
10. VI. THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS. 15,600 words
11. VII. BAIN ON THE EMOTIONS AND THE WILL. 7,400 words
12. VIII. ILLOGICAL GEOLOGY. 14,900 words
13. IX. THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS. 2,100 words
14. X. THE SOCIAL ORGANISM. 12,700 words
15. XI. USE AND BEAUTY 1,400 words
16. XII. THE SOURCES OF ARCHITECTURAL TYPES. 1,700 words
17. XIII. THE USE OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM. 2,100 words
18. C 500 words
19. H 300 words
20. M 200 words
21. P 300 words
22. S 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Algebra
• Biology
• Calculus
• Classification
• Duality (mathematics)
• Emotion
• Fossil
• History of China
• Mechanics
• Music
• Number
• Progress
• Stratum (linguistics)
• Sun

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