“Mr. Spencer has thoroughly studied the issues which are behind the social and political life of our own time, not exactly those issues which are discussed in Parliament or in Congress, but the principles of all modern government, which are slowly changing in response to the broader industrial and general development of human experience.  One will obtain no suggestions out of his book for guiding a political party or carrying a point in economics, but he will find the principles of sociology, as they pertain to the whole of life, better stated in these pages than he can find them expressed anywhere else.  It is in this sense that this work is important and fresh and vitalizing.  It goes constantly to the foundation of things.”—­Boston Herald.

VARIOUS FRAGMENTS,
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EDUCATION:  Intellectual, Moral, and Physical.
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     CONTENTS:  What Knowledge is of most Worth?  Intellectual
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THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY. 
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CONTENTS:  Our need of it.  Is there a Social Science?  Nature of the Social Science.  Difficulties of the Social Science.  Objective Difficulties.  Subjective Difficulties, Intellectual.  Subjective Difficulties, Emotional, The Educational Bias.  The Bias of Patriotism.  The Class Bias.  The Political Bias.  The Theological Bias.  Discipline.  Preparation in Biology.  Preparation in Psychology.  Conclusion.

THE INADEQUACY OF “NATURAL SELECTION.”
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This essay, in which Professor Weismann’s theories are criticised, is reprinted from the Contemporary Review, and comprises a forcible presentation of Mr. Spencer’s views upon the general subject indicated in the title.

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PIONEERS OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
     Sketches of their Lives and Scientific Work. 
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