ESSAYS: SCIENTIFIC, POLITICAL, AND SPECULATIVE. BY HERBERT SPENCER, AUTHOR OF " SOCIAL STATICS" AND "THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY." REPRINTED, CHIEFLY FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEWS. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS. 1858. PREFACE. THE Essays collected together in this volume, were severally written with a view to ultimate re-publication in a permanent form. Each contains, as I believe, ideas of more than ephemeral interest; and on each I have bestowed an amount of thought and labour much greater than is usually bestowed on Review articles. Most of them now re-appear with additions. The Essay on "The Philosophy of Style" especially, has been considerably amplified; and that on "Transcendental Physiology" includes two sections (pp. 279 to 290, and pp. 302, 303) omitted from it when first published. Add to which, that all of them have undergone a careful verbal revision. The places and dates of original publication are as follows:"Progress: its Law and Cause," in the Westminster Review, for April, 1857. "Railway Morals and Railway Policy," in the Edinburgh Review, for October, 1854. "Manners and Fashion," in the Westminster Review, for April, 1854. "The Genesis of Science," in the British Quarterly Review, for July, 1854. "The Philosophy of Style," in the Westminster Review, for October, 1852. |