X PREFACE 



Mr. Herbert Spencer, has been permitted to see the 

 original documents which show that the theory of 

 Evolution as a whole ; i.e. as including i. the in- 

 organic or non-living ; 2. the organic or living ; and 

 3. the super-organic, or social processes and products; 

 was formulated by Mr. Spencer in the year preceding 

 the publication of the Origin of Species. 



ROSEMOWT, TUFNELL PARK, LONDON, N. 



iqtk December 1896. 



