The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Family history and parentage; 2. Childhood and youth; 3. Engineering; 4. Literature wooed, but not won; 5. Engineering once more; 6. His first book; 7. A new psychology; 8. The unification of knowledge; 9. First principles; 10. Biology; 11. Sunshine and shadow; 12. Psychology and descriptive sociology; 13. The study of sociology; 14. Distaste for honours and ceremonial; 15. The secularization of morals; 16. Egypt and America; 17. A political creed for true liberalism; 18. Religious discussion; 19. The factors of organic evolution; 20. In defence of freedom and justice; 21. Altruism as a factor in social evolution; 22. Latter day controversies; 23. Completing the synthetic philosophy; 24. Congratulations; 25. Revision of Biology and First Principles; 26. Inorganic evolution; 27. His last book; 28. The close of life; 29. Characteristics and personal reminiscences; 30. Spencer's place in the history of thought; Appendices; Index.