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Works by Herbert Spencer In chronological order
Herbert Spencer 1850.Social Statics. London.
—— 1855.The Principles of Psychology. London, Williams and Norgate.
—— 1861.Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical. London, Williams and Norgate. Reprinted in 1932 with an Introduction by F. A. Cavenagh. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
—— 1862.First Principles. London, Williams & Norgate.
Herbert Spencer 1864–67.The Principles of Biology. London.
Herbert Spencer 1872.The Study of Sociology. London.
—— 1873–81.Descriptive Sociology. London, Williams & Norgate.
—— 1876–96.The Principles of Sociology. London, Williams & Norgate.
—— 1892–93.The Principles of Ethics. 2 v. New York, Hurst.
—— 1904.Autobiography. 2 v. London, Williams and Norgate.
Works about Herbert Spencer
Armstrong, H. E. 1903.The Teaching of Scientific Method. London, Macmillan.
Bagley, C. A. 1911.Educational Values. New York, Macmillan.
Bain, A. 1882.J. S. Mill. London, Longmans Green.
Barlow, N. (ed.). 1958.The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. London, Collins.
Bibby, C. 1959.T. H. Huxley. London, Watts.
Childs, J. L. 1949. ‘Cultural factors in Dewey's Philosophy of Education’.Teachers College Record (New York), Vol. 51, No. 3, December.
Combe, G. 1828.The Constitution of Man. London.
Compayre, G. 1908.Herbert Spencer and Scientific Education. Trans. by M. E. F. Findlay. London, Harrap.
Cremin, L. A. 1961.The Transformation of the School. New York, A. Knopf.
Darwin, C. 1859.On the Origin of Species. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968 ed.
Dewey, J. 1929. ‘The Philosophical Work of Herbert Spencer’. In:Characters and Events. New York, Holt.
Duncan, D. 1908.The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer. London, Methuen.
Hofstadter, R. 1955.Social Darwinism in American Thought. Boston, Beacon.
Huxley, T. H. 1901.Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays. London.
Lauwerys, J. A. 1952. ‘Herbert Spencer and the Scientific Movement’. In: A. V. Judges (ed.).Pioneers of English Education. London, Faber.
Lewes, G. H. 1883.Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences. London, Bell.
Low-Beer, A. 1969.Spencer. London, Collier-Macmillan.
Monroe, P. 1919.History of Education. New York, Macmillan.
Ogburn, W. F. 1966.Social Change. New York, Delta.
Payne, W. H. 1907.Compayre's History of Pedagogy. London, Swan Sonnenshein.
Peel, J. D. Y. 1971.Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist. London, Heinemann.
Quick, R. H. 1904.Essays on Educational Reformers. London, Longmans Green.
Riley, W. 1925.American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond. New York, Henry Holt.
Sumner, W. G. 1906.Folkways. New York, Dover.
Webb, B. 1926.My Apprenticeship. London, Longmans Green.
Wiener, P. P. 1965.Evolution and the Founders of Pragmatism. New York, Harper.
— (ed.) 1958.Values in a Universe of Choice: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce. New York, Doubleday Anchor.
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Holmes, B. Herbert Spencer. Prospects 24, 533–554 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195287
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