Titlebook: Herbert Spencer and Social Theory; John Offer Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 ethics.evoluti

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Early Spencer: Influences and Ideas,d Duncan’s . of 1908. The . gives the account of his life in some detail up to 1882, and is then thinner until as a chronological account it ceases altogether at the year 1889. Spencer relates that he systematically started collecting material in May, 1875, and then, ‘for an hour on Saturday afterno

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Middle Spencer: Towards a Tapestry of the World,ctober: ‘The Ultimate Laws of Physiology’ in the . ‘The Origin and Function of Music’ in . and ‘Representative Government: What Is It Good For?’ in the . In providing the first public signal of what was to emerge as the ‘System of Synthetic Philosophy’ the ‘Progress’ essay marks a turning point in S

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Later Spencer: Crafting the ,, and Losing Hold,e science. Spencer anticipated the task with naive optimism. To Youmans on 12 October 1872 he confided that he expected a quickening in the rate of progress towards the completion of the remaining volumes projected for the ‘System’. The 12 years spent to date had included 2 years taken up with a num

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Evolution and Mind,torts its whole morphology. One must therefore ignore Crane Brinton’s often-quoted droll yet superficial aside that a full analysis of Spencer’s system ‘would be an intolerable infliction upon the reader’ (1962: p. 188). Spencer provided a summary of his theory to accompany the publication of Collin

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Militant and Industrial Social Types,a lone voice in the first half of the early nineteenth century in identifying war and militancy as a source of distinctive and disturbing forms of social life. Whately perceived, no less keenly than Spencer was later to do, an antinomy between the waging of wars and social progress, with progress un