HERBERT SPENCER. 



1. Principles of Psychology. By Herbert Spencer. London, 1872. 



2. First Principles. By Herbert Spencer. London, 1867. 



3. Essays. By Herbert Spencer. London, 1868. 



MR. HERBERT SPENCER has been termed by Mr. 

 Darwin ' our great philosopher ' ; and there is no doubt 

 that he is regarded by a select body of admiring disciples as 

 the paramount authority^ on all philosophical questions. Nor 

 are we disposed to question his intellectual achievements. 

 Possessing as he does an acquaintance with almost all 

 branches of physical science, together with a singular quick- 

 ness in the detection of analogies, and much analytic power, 

 he has the good fortune to be also able to manifest his 

 wealth of thought by a corresponding richness of diction, 

 his style being clear and forcible, abounding in picturesque 

 illustrations, aptly chosen for the purposes they are intended 

 to subserve, and often possessing even a poetical beauty. 

 Vigorous and well-exercised natural faculties have enabled 

 him to gather up within his delicate yet nervous grasp, 

 not only the multitudinous threads spun by the various 

 discoverers in physical science, but also those yet more 

 subtle fibres Avhich our recent best-known psychologists have 

 drawn forth ; weaving the whole, with dexterous skill, 

 into an intellectual fabric of great delicacy and apparent 

 cohesion. 



Mr. Spencer has indeed so co-ordinated, supplemented. 



