SOCIAL STATICS; OR, THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN HAPPINESS SPECIFIED, AND THE FIRST OF THEM DEVELOPED. BY HERBERT SPENCER, AUTHOR OF ILI USTRATIONS OF PROGRESS, ESSAYS: MORAL, POLITICAL, AND ESTHETIC" D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 & 551 BROADWAY. 1873. WORKS BY HERBERT SPENCER. PUBLISHED BY D. APPLETON & CO. Miscellaneous Writings. EDICATION-INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL. 1 vol., 12mo. 283 pages. Cloth. ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PROGRESS. 1 vol., large 12mo. 470 pages. Cloth. ESSAYS-MORAL, POLITICAL, AND ESTHETIC. 1 vol., large 12mo. 418 pages. SOCIAL STATICS; or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the first of them Developed. 1 vol., large 12mo. 523 pages. THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES: to which is added Reasons for Dissenting from the Philosophy of M. Comte. A pamphlet of 50 pages. Fine paper. System of Philosophy. FIRST PRINCIPLES, IN TWO PARTS-I. The Unknowable; II. Laws of the Knowable. 1 vol., large 12mo. 508 pages. Cloth. PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. Vol. I. large 12mo. 475 pages. Vol. II. large 12mo. 566 pages. 66 Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1865, By D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the 1121 576 1873 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. MR. HERBERT SPENCER was born in Derby, England, where his father and mother still live. For two generations the occupation of his family has been that of teaching-his grandfather having kept the chief school in Derby (after the grammar school), and his father having adopted the same profession. Herbert was the only surviving child, and his health was so delicate that his parents had but little hope of raising him. His father, who had paid much attention to the subject of physical development, gave such a direction to his child's early education as was suited to the feebleness of his constitution. He brought him up as much as possible in the open air, and sought, by gradual and judicious exercise, to strengthen his muscles and invigorate his constitution. Feeling the danger of exposing him to the usual course of education, he kept him from school, and attended to his instruction chiefly himself. A correspondent of the Independent who knew the family in Derby several years ago, and who derived from Mr. Spencer's father several particulars of the mode of conducting his son's culture, remarks that his method was to begin with the explanation of the properties and laws of external objects. He never gave him 54183 |