Author:Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer
(1820–1903)

Herbert Spencer

Works

Books

• Data of Ethics (1879) IA
• The Proper Sphere of Government (1843)
• Social Statics (1851) IA
  • The Right to Ignore the State (reprinted separately 1913)
  • "The Right to Ignore the State," in Man or the State? (pp. 90−99), (ed.) by Waldo Ralph Browne, New York: B. W. Huebsch (1919)
• The Principles of Psychology (1855) IA
• First Principles (1862) IA external transcript
• Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical (1861) IA
• The Principles of Biology (edition 1910); 1 of 2 vol. (originally published 1864-1867). IA, vol 1 (1886 ed.)
• The Study of Sociology (1872)
• The Principles of Sociology 3 vol. (1874-1896) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• The Principles of Ethics 2 vol. (1879-1893) IA 1, IA 2
• The Man Versus the State (1884) IA external transcript
  • The Coming Slavery
  • The Sins of Legislators
• The Factors of Organic Evolution (1893)
• Various Fragments (1897) IA
• Facts and Comments (1902) IA
• Autobiography 2 vol. (1904) IA 1, IA 2

Essays, Scientific, Political and Speculative (3 volumes)

• Intellectual Education IA 1, IA 2, IA 3

Articles

• "The Development Hypothesis" (1852)
• "The Universal Postulate" in The Westminster Review, Vol. 60, No. 118 (1853) [1]
• "The Americans" in Littell's Living Age, 156 (2016) (1882)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Study of Sociology I" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (May 1872)
• "The Study of Sociology II" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (June 1872)
• "Mr Martineau on Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (July 1872)
• "The Study of Sociology III" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (September 1872)
• "The Study of Sociology IV" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (October 1872)
• "The Study of Sociology V" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (November 1872)
• "The Study of Sociology VI" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (January 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology VII" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (February 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology VIII" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (March 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology IX" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (April 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology X" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (May 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology XI" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (June 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology XII" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (July 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology XIII" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (August 1873)
• "The Study of Sociology XIV" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (September 1873)
• "Mental Science and Sociology" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (October 1873)
• "Psychology of the Sexes" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (November 1873)
• "Radicalism, Conservatism, and the Transition of Institutions" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (December 1873)
• "Replies to Criticisms I" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (January 1874)
• "Replies to Criticisms II" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (February 1874)
• "Replies to the Quarterly Reviewers" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (March 1874)
• "Punishing a Senior Wrangler" in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (June 1874)
• "Climate and Social Development" in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (July 1874)
• "Mental Evolution and Necessary Truths" in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (July 1874)
• "Emotions in the Primitive Man" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (January 1875)
• "The Genesis of Superstitions" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (March 1875)
• "Idol-Worship and Fetich-Worship" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (December 1875)
• "The Comparative Psychology of Man" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (January 1876)
• "Society and Organism" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (May 1876)
• "Predatory and Industrial Societies" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (October 1876)
• "Theories of Primitive Marriage" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (January 1877)
• "On the Evolution of the Family I" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (June 1877)
• "On the Evolution of the Family II" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (July 1877)
• "The Status of Women and Children" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (August 1877)
• "Domestic Retrospect and Prospect" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (September 1877)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government I" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (February 1878)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government II" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (March 1878)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government III" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (April 1878)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government IV" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (May 1878)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government V" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (June 1878)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government VI" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (July 1878)
• "Consciousness Under Chloroform" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (October 1878)
• "Evolution of Ceremonial Government VII" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (November 1878)
• "Herbert Spencer Before the English Copyright Commission I" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (January 1879)
• "Herbert Spencer Before the English Copyright Commission II" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (February 1879)
• "Criticisms Corrected I" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (October 1880)
• "The Development of Political Institutions I" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (November 1880)
• "Criticisms Corrected II" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (November 1880)
• "The Development of Political Institutions II" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (December 1880)
• "The Development of Political Institutions III" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (January 1881)
• "Criticisms Corrected III" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (January 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions IV" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (February 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions V" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (March 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions VI" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (April 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions VII" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (June 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions VIII" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (July 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions IX" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (September 1881)
• "The Development of Political Institutions X" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (October 1881)
• "The Industrial Type of Society" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (November 1881)
• "Professor Goldwin Smith as a Critic" in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (May 1882)
• "Mozley on Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (October 1882)
• "The Gospel of Recreation" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (January 1883)
• "Social Forces in American Life" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (February 1883)
• "Religious Retrospect and Prospect" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (January 1884)
• "The New Toryism" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (February 1884)
• "The Coming Slavery" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (April 1884)
• "The Sins of Legislators I" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (May 1884)
• "The Sins of Legislators II" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (June 1884)
• "The Great Political Superstition" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (July 1884)
• "Retrogressive Religion" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (August 1884)
• "Origin of the Synthetic Philosophy" in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (November 1884)
• "Last Words About Agnosticism" in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (January 1885)
• "A Rejoinder to M de Laveleye" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (June 1885)
• "Nonconformity" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (January 1886)
• "The Factors of Organic Evolution I" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (April 1886)
• "The Factors of Organic Evolution II" in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (May 1886)
• "The Factors of Organic Evolution III" in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (June 1886)
• "A Counter Criticism" in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (June 1888)
• "The Ethics of Kant" in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (August 1888)
• "Absolute Political Ethics" in Popular Science Monthly, 36 (March 1890)
• "On Justice I" in Popular Science Monthly, 37 (May 1890)
• "On Justice II" in Popular Science Monthly, 37 (June 1890)
• "The Origin of Music" in Popular Science Monthly, 38 (November 1890)
• "From Freedom to Bondage" in Popular Science Monthly, 38 (April 1891)
• "The Limits of State-Duties" in Popular Science Monthly, 39 (September 1891)
• "Veracity" in Popular Science Monthly, 41 (August 1892)
• "The Inadequacy of Natural Selection I" in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (April 1893)
• "The Inadequacy of Natural Selection II" in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (May 1893)
• "The Inadequacy of Natural Selection III" in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (June 1893)
• "Private Relief of the Poor" in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (July 1893)
• "Professor Weismann's Theories" in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (August 1893)
• "The Late Professor Tyndall" in Popular Science Monthly, 44 (April 1894)
• "Professional Institutions I" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (May 1895)
• "Professional Institutions II" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (June 1895)
• "Mr Balfour's Dialectics" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (July 1895)
• "Professional Institutions III" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (July 1895)
• "Professional Institutions IV" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (August 1895)
• "Professional Institutions V" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (September 1895)
• "Professional Institutions VI" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (October 1895)
• "Professional Institutions VII" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (November 1895)
• "Professional Institutions VIII" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (December 1895)
• "Professional Institutions IX" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (January 1896)
• "Professional Institutions X" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (February 1896)
• "Lord Salisbury on Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (February 1896)
• "Professional Institutions XI" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (March 1896)
• "Professional Institutions XII" in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (April 1896)
• "The Metric System" in Popular Science Monthly, 49 (June 1896)
• "The Relations of Biology, Psychology, and Physiology" in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (December 1896)

Works about Spencer

• "Herbert Spencer and the Doctrine of Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (November 1874)
• "Sketch of Herbert Spencer" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (March 1876)
• "Spencer, Herbert," by E. L. Youmans in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Spencer and Darwin" in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (April 1897)
• The Herbert Spencer lecture (1905) by Frederic Harrison
• "Spencer, Herbert," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "The Career of Herbert Spencer" in Popular Science Monthly, 74 (January 1909)
• "Spencer, Herbert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Spencer, Herbert," by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Spencer, Herbert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• "Herbert Spencer", a biographical portrait by John McLure Hamilton from Men I Have Painted (1921)

about work

• "A Vindication of Scientific Ethics" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (July 1880)
• "Concerning the Suppressed Book" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (August 1885)
• "Herbert Spencer and the Synthetic Philosophy" in Popular Science Monthly, 41 (May 1892)
• "The Relation of Biology to Sociology" in Popular Science Monthly, 41 (June 1892)