Herbert Spencer

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Standard Name: Spencer, Herbert

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Travel Constance Naden
Instead of travelling out entirely by sea, as was usual, the two women went overland through Europe, visiting Vienna and proceeding down the Danube through Budapest on their way to Constantinople. After a pause...
Textual Production Constance Naden
CN presented several papers on evolution and sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History Society (devoted to the principles of Herbert Spencer ).
Textual Production Constance Naden
CN delivered her essay entitled Data of Ethics (presumably on Herbert Spencer 's work of that title, 1879) to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society .
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
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Daniell, Madeline, and Constance Naden. “Memoir”. Induction and Deduction, edited by Robert Lewins and Robert Lewins, Bickers and Son, p. vii - xviii.
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Textual Production Constance Naden
CN made a visit back to Mason College in Birmingham to deliver an address on Herbert Spencer 's The Principles of Sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society .
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
Some of her other works on education are On the Connection Between the Kindergarten and the School (1880), Home Education in Relation to Kindergarten, Two Lectures (1884), The Kindergarten at Home (1884), and Moral Training:...
Textual Features Constance Naden
CN argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
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Although this sounds as if anything beyond our senses must be essentially unknowable, so that even its existence becomes...
Textual Features George Eliot
Herbert Spencer went to great lengths to keep secret GE 's letters to him (so entirely unconventional in their frank avowal of carefully considered but socially unsanctioned feelings); it is remarkable that he did not...
Textual Features C. E. Plumptre
CEP opposes against each other the theories of Design and Evolution and explains her reasons for considering it a duty to choose between them. Aligning herself with the latter, she declares the scientific investigation of...
Textual Features Antoinette Brown Blackwell
ABB opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin 's and Herbert Spencer 's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries...
Textual Features Jane Hume Clapperton
Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Thomas Malthus , Thomas Huxley , Francis Galton , Edward Carpenter , John A. Hobson , and Sidney Webb . She was also inspired...
Reception George Eliot
Nevertheless, in the month of publication Lewes had written to Herbert Spencer at his wife's behest to deny categorically that the novel was hers. Spencer soon cooled in his relationship to the Leweses (out of...
Reception Frances Power Cobbe
The Athenæum regarded FPC 's book as a serious contribution to theological debate, though it considered the first essay the weakest. Her rejection of the thinking that fed into social Darwinism—she noted that Darwin had...
Publishing L. S. Bevington
Four of these poems were reprinted in Popular Science Monthly at the request of LSB 's friend Herbert Spencer , a social scientist renowned for developing the concept of social Darwinism. The original publisher of...
Publishing Antoinette Brown Blackwell
ABB crossed swords again with Herbert Spencer and William Benjamin Carpenter in The Alleged Antagonism between Growth and Reproduction, an article in Popular Science Monthly.
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown. “The Alleged Antagonism between Growth and Reproduction”. Popular Science Monthly, Vol.
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, No. 5, pp. 606-10.
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politics C. E. Plumptre
Plumptre was an Individualist and an admirer of the social and evolutionary philosophy of Herbert Spencer .
Gould, Frederick James. Chats with Pioneers of Modern Thought. Watts.
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She favoured social reform, though without any deep understanding of actual social conditions. Regarding her own stance...

Timeline

By 12 April 1851: Herbert Spencer published his first book,...

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By 12 April 1851

Herbert Spencer published his first book, Social Statics, on social philosophy.

1855: Herbert Spencer published Principles of ...

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1855

Herbert Spencer published Principles of Psychology.

1862: Herbert Spencer published his exposition...

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1862

Herbert Spencer published his exposition of First Principles.

1873: Evolutionary philosopher Herbert Spencer...

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1873

Evolutionary philosopher Herbert Spencer published The Study of Sociology.

1876: The first volume of Herbert Spencer's The...

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1876

The first volume of Herbert Spencer 's The Principles of Sociology was published.

1892-3: Herbert Spencer published The Principles...

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1892-3

Herbert Spencer published The Principles of Ethics in two volumes; this formed part of his larger series entitled A System of Synthetic Philosophy.

1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...

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1897

With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby , shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.

Texts

Spencer, Herbert. The Complete Works of Herbert Spencer. InteLex Corp.
Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Ethics. Appleton, 1896.
Spencer, Herbert, and Talcott Parsons. The Study of Sociology. University of Michigan Press, 1961.