AMERICAN NOTICE 



OF A 



NEW SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. 



HERBERT SPENCER. 



THE author of the following work, Mr. Herbert Spencer, of 

 England, has entered upon the publication of a new philosophical 

 Bystem, so original and comprehensive as to deserve the attention 

 of all earnest inquirers. He proposes nothing less than to unfold 

 such a complete philosophy of Nature, physical, organic, mental 

 and social, as Science has now for the first time made possible, 

 and which, if successfully executed, will constitute a momentous 

 etep in the progress of thought. 



His system is designed to embrace five works ; each a distinct 

 treatise, but all closely connected in plan, and treating of the fol 

 lowing subjects in the order presented : 1st, First Principles ; 

 2d, Principles of Biology ; 3d, Principles of Psychology ; 4th, 

 Principles of Sociology ; 5th, Principles of Morality. The 

 opening work of the series First Principles though somewhat 

 of an introductory character, is an independent and completed 



