Explaining the universe: Herbert Spencer's attempt to synthesize political and evolutionary ideas

Endeavour

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 56-59

  Gay, Hannah ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PHILOSOPHY; PORTRAITS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0032609155     PISSN: 01609327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-9327(99)01187-4     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. For example, Turner, J. (1985) Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Approach,
2. Sage; and Haines, V.A. (1992) Spencer's philosophy of science, Br. J. Sociol. 43, 155-172
3. Spencer, H. (1904) An Autobiography, Vol. 1, p. 208, Williams and Norgate
4. Macrae, D. (ed.) (1969) Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State, Penguin
5. Spencer, H. (1954) Social Statics: or the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified and one of them Adopted, Robert Schalkenbach reprint of the 1851 edn
6. Weinstein, D. (1998) Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism, Cambridge University Press
7. Spencer, Social Statics, quoted in Weinstein (see Ref. 5), p. 184
8. Duncan, D. (1908) The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer, p. 139, Methuen
9. The Times, 9th January, 1904.
10. See also, Gay, H. (1998) No 'Heathen's Corner' Here: the Failed Attempt to Memorialize Herbert Spencer in Westminster Abbey, Br. J. Hist. Sci. 31, 41-54, for a discussion of Spencer's reputation at the time of his death
11. Young, R.M. (1998) Herbert Spencer and 'Inevitable' Progress in Marsden, G. (ed.) Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Society, second edition, Longman