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Books about Herbert Spencer:

• Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley; With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement (New York: D. Apleton and Co., 1897), by Edward Clodd
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• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Books by Herbert Spencer:

• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Classification of the Sciences; To Which Are Added Reasons for Dissenting From the Philosophy of M. Comte (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864)
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• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Data of Ethics (New York: A. L. Burt Co., n.d.)
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• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (Everyman's Library #504; London: Dent; New York: Dutton, reprinted 1963), contrib. by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (library edition, 3 vollumes; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1891)
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  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Factors of Organic Evolution (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: First Principles (HTML at McMaster)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: First Principles (London: Williams and Norgate, 1863) (Gutenberg text)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865) (Gutenberg text)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903, contrib.: John Stuart Mill, His Life and Works: Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1873), also contrib. by Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, H. R. Fox Bourne, William Thomas Thornton, Henry Trimen, William Minto, J. H. Levy, W. A. Hunter, John Elliott Cairnes, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903, contrib.: John Stuart Mill, His Life and Works: Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), also contrib. by Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, H. R. Fox Bourne, William Thomas Thornton, Henry Trimen, William Minto, J. H. Levy, W. A. Hunter, John Elliott Cairnes, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Gutenberg text)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: Les Bases de la Morale Évolutionniste (8th edition, in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1905) (Gutenberg text)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903, contrib.: Man or the State? A Group of Essays by Famous Writers (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), ed. by Waldo R. Browne, also contrib. by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Henry Thomas Buckle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde
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• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Man Versus the State (text at McMaster)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Philosophy of Style (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Principles of Biology (revised and enlarged edition, 2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1900-1910)
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  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: The Right to Ignore the State (London: Freedom Press, 1913) (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: Social Statics, Abridged and Revised; Together With The Man Versus the State (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903: Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed (London: J. Chapman, 1851) (multiple formats at archive.org)

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