Herbert Spencer

Vorwortder Verlags handlung.In den nachfolgenden Blättern übergeben wir den deutschen Freunden und Verehrern des berühmten englischen Philosophen und ]STationalökonomen die Übersetzung einer Reihe von kleineren Aufsätzen und Gelegenheitsschriften, die nach den eigenen Worten des Verfassers ...

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Words are somewhat strained in their meanings by calling that a Second Edition, of which the new portion greatly exceeds the old portion in amount; as happens with this volume, and as will happen with its successor. Of the five Parts here bound together, the two...

CHAPTER I. ORGANIC MATTER. § 1. Of the four chief elements which, in various combinations, make up living bodies, three are gaseous. While carbon is known only as a solid, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen are known only in the aeriform state. Under pressures great enough to reduce them almost to...

PREFACE. This little work has been written at the instigation of my American friend, Professor Youmans. When, some two years ago, he was in England making arrangements for that International Scientific Series which he originated and succeeded in organizing, he urged me to contribute to it a...

Részlet a könyvből:"Majdnem kizárólag a társadalomtudomány dinamikus részével fogunk foglalkozni; mégis úgy vélem, szükség van a társadalmi statika néhány fogalmának meghatározására, amelyek nélkül munkánk további része nem lenne érthető. A társadalmi lét feltételeit...

Normális időkben az emberek többé-kevésbé merev tételek vallására, dogmatizmusra hajlanak, nem szívesen veszik értelmi kényelmük megzavarását és szeretik maguktól távol tartani a kételyt. De a forradalmas korszakok felrázzák a lelkeket, életet visznek a megszokottságokba,...

PEEFAOE. Being somewhat at variance with precedent, the tone and mode of treatment occasionally adopted in the fol' lowing pages will, perhaps, provoke criticism. Whether, in thus innovating upon established usage, the writer has acted judiciously or otherwise, the event must determine. lie has...