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First Principles

by Herbert Spencer

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  1. 1Preface — A System of Philosophy
  2. 2First Principles
  3. 3The Principles of Biology
  4. 4Vol. II
  5. 5The Principles of Psychology
  6. 6The Principles of Sociology
  7. 7The Principles of Morality
  8. 8Part I — The Unknowable
  9. 9Chapter II — Ultimate Religious Ideas
  10. 10Chapter III — Ultimate Scientific Ideas
  11. 11Chapter IV — The Relativity of All Knowledge
  12. 12Chapter V — The Reconciliation
  13. 13Part II — Laws of the Knowable
  14. 14Chapter II — The Law of Evolution
  15. 15Chapter III — The Law of Evolution, Continued
  16. 16Chapter IV — The Causes of Evolution
  17. 17Chapter V — Space, Time, Matter, Motion, and Force
  18. 18Chapter VI — The Indestructibility of Matter
  19. 19Chapter VII — The Continuity of Motion
  20. 20Chapter VIII — The Persistence of Force
  21. 21Chapter IX — The Correlation and Equivalence of Forces
  22. 22Chapter X — The Direction of Motion
  23. 23Chapter XI — The Rhythm of Motion
  24. 24Chapter XII — The Conditions Essential to Evolution
  25. 25Chapter XIII — The Instability of the Homogeneous
  26. 26Chapter XIV — The Multiplication of Effects
  27. 27Chapter XV — Differentiation and Integration
  28. 28Chapter XVI — Equilibration
  29. 29Chapter XVII — Summary and Conclusion

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