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AMERICAN NOTICE 



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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 

 system, 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 

 Btep 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 Princi/Aes— though, somewhat 

 of an introductory character, is an independent and completed 



