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SOCIAL STATICS; 



OE, 



THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN HAPPINESS SPECI- 

 FIED, AND THE FIEST OF THEM DEVELOPED. 



BY HERBERT SPENCER. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



Mr. Spencer, in his able and logical work on " Social Statics " . . . . Edin~ 

 turgh Review. 



It deserves very high praise for the ability, clearness, and force with which 

 it is written, and which entitle it to the character, now so rare, of a really sub- 

 stantial book. North British. Review. 



A remarkable work Mr. Spencer exhibits, and exhibits with re- 

 markable force and clearness, many social equalizations of a just and right 

 species which remain yet to be effected. British Quarterly Review. 



An inquiry conducted throughout with clearness, good temper, and strict 



logic "We shall be mistaken if this book do not assist in organising that 



huge mass of thought which, for want of a more specific name, is now called 

 Liberal Opinion. Athenoeum. 



It is the most eloquent, the most interesting, the most clearly-expressed and 

 logically-reasoned work, with views the most original, that has appeared in the 

 science of social polity. Literary Gazette. 



The author of the present work is no ordinary thinker, and no ordinary wri- 

 ter ; and he gives us, in language that sparkles with beauties, and in reasoning 

 at once novel and elaborate, precise and logical, a very comprehensive and 



complete exposition of the rights of men in society The book will 



mark an epoch in the literature of scientific morality. Economist. 



We remember no work on ethics since that of Spinoza to be compared with 

 It in the simplicity of its premises, and the logical rigour with which a com- 

 plete system of scientific ethics is evolved from them A work at once 



so scientific in spirit and method, and so popular in execution, we shall look in 

 vain for through libraries of political philosophy. Leader. 



The careful reading we have given it has both afforded us intense pleasure, 

 and rendered it a duty to express, with unusual emphasis, our opinion of iti 

 great ability and excellence. Nonconformist. 



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