Illustrations of Universal Progress · Herbert Spencer
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Painting and sculpture, origin of, 20. Paleontology neither proves nor disproves development, 367, 376. Picturesque, meaning of, 433. Planetoids, origin of 289. Plato's model republic, central idea of, 388. Previsions and ordinary knowledge, 117; previsions known as science, 118; common and scientific, 123; when quantitative arose, 158; increase in precision, 171. Primary divisions of a germ and of a society, 404-407. Progress, current meaning of, 1; present inquiry concerning, 2; law of progress exemplified in the genesis of solar system, 3; in the phenomena of the earth's crust, 5; in the advance of life in general, 7; in the history of man, 10; in the growth of civilization, 12; in government, 13; in language, 17; in painting and sculpture, 20; in poetry, music, and dancing, 24; statement of the principle which determines progress of every kind, 32; the principle of progress illustrated in geological phenomena, 35; in chemical, 40; in organic evolution, 42; in social advancement, 50; in use of locomotive engine, 54; this principle does not explain things in themselves, 58; progress of science, 141; of astronomical discovery, 165, 171. Progress of animals and societies in forming channels of communication, 416. Psychology, relation of English thought to, 301; classification in, for the present, must be provisional, 300, 301. Reasoning, nature of, 150; basis of, 154; advances with classification, 157. Reformers, eccentricities of, 61; why necessary, 93; not selfish, 95, 97; difficulties of social, 110. Reform, how is it to be effected? 111. Religion aided by inquiry, 58. Religious ideas, account of primitive, 66.
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