Herbert Spencer - Primary Sources

Primary Sources

• Papers of Herbert Spencer in Senate House Library, University of London
• Most of Spencer's books are available online
• "On The Proper Sphere of Government" (1842)
• Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed (1851)
  • "The Right to Ignore the State", Chapter XIX of the first edition of Social Statics(p)
  • Social Statics: Abridged and Revised (1892)
• "A Theory of Population" (1852)
• Principles of Psychology (1855), first edition, issued in one volume
• Education (1861)
• System of Synthetic Philosophy',' in ten volumes
  • First Principles ISBN 0-89875-795-9 (1862)
  • Principles of Biology (1864, 1867; revised and enlarged: 1898), in two volumes
    • Volume I – Part I: The Data of Biology; Part II: The Inductions of Biology; Part III: The Evolution of Life; Appendices
    • Volume II – Part IV: Morphological Development; Part V: Physiological Development; Part VI: Laws of Multiplication; Appendices
  • Principles of Psychology (1870, 1880), in two volumes
    • Volume I – Part I: The Data of Psychology; Part II: The Inductions of Psychology; Part III: General Synthesis; Part IV: Special Synthesis; Part V: Physical Synthesis; Appendix
    • Volume II – Part VI: Special Analysis; Part VII: General Analysis; Part VIII: Congruities; Part IX: Corollaries
  • Principles of Sociology, in three volumes
    • Volume I (1874–75; enlarged 1876, 1885) – Part I: Data of Sociology; Part II: Inductions of Sociology; Part III: Domestic Institutions
    • Volume II – Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions (1879); Part V: Political Institutions (1882); Part VI : Ecclesiastical Institutions (1885)
    • Volume III – Part VI : Ecclesiastical Institutions (1885); Part VII: Professional Institutions (1896); Part VIII: Industrial Institutions (1896); References
  • The Principles of Ethics (1897), in two volumes
    • Volume I – Part I: The Data of Ethics (1879); Part II: The Inductions of Ethics (1892); Part III: The Ethics of Individual Life (1892); References
    • Volume II – Part IV: The Ethics of Social Life: Justice (1891); Part V: The Ethics of Social Life: Negative Beneficence (1892); Part VI: The Ethics of Social Life: Positive Beneficence (1892); Appendices
• The Study of Sociology (1873, 1896)
• An Autobiography (1904), in two volumes

See also Spencer, Herbert (1904). An Autobiography. D. Appleton and Company. http://books.google.com/books?id=gUozqCwTGkEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=herbert+spencer#PPR3,M2.

• v1 Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan (1908)
• v2 Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan (1908)
• Descriptive Sociology; or Groups of Sociological Facts, parts 1–8, classified and arranged by Spencer, compiled and abstracted by David Duncan, Richard Schepping, and James Collier (London, Williams & Norgate, 1873–1881).

Essay Collections:

• Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions (1864, 1883)
• The Man versus the State (1884)
• Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891), in three volumes:
  • Volume I (includes "The Development Hypothesis," "Progress: Its Law and Cause," "The Factors of Organic Evolution" and others)
  • Volume II (includes "The Classification of the Sciences", The Philosophy of Style (1852), The Origin and Function of Music," "The Physiology of Laughter," and others)
  • Volume III (includes "The Ethics of Kant", "State Tamperings With Money and Banks", "Specialized Administration", "From Freedom to Bondage", "The Americans", and others)
• Various Fragments (1897, enlarged 1900)
• Facts and Comments (1902)