fVorti of Ilerbert Spencer published by D. Appleton A Co. 

 la One Volume, 8vo., Cloth. Price $2.50. 



SOCIAL STATICS; 



OB, 



THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN IIAPriNESS BPECI* 

 FIED, AND THE EIKST OIVTHEM DEVELOrED. 



BY IIERBEKT SPENCEK. 



OPINIONS OF THE PIiES3. 



Mr. Sponcer, In his able and logical work on " Social Statics " . . . . Edin- 

 turgh lievieio. 



It deserves very liigh pralso for the ability, clearness, and force with whieli 

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

 Blautlul booic. — North British Review. 



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

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

 Bpecies which remain yet to bo eifected. — Britiah Quurterli/ liecieio. 



An Inquiry conducted throughout witli clearness, gootl tiinjjer, and strict • 



logic Wc shall bo mistaken if this book do not assist in organising that I 



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

 Liberal Ojiinion. — Alhemvuin. 



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 tho 

 Bclence of social i)olity. — Literary Gazette. 



The author of tho 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 an<l elaborate, precise and logical, a very comprehensive and 



complete exposition of the rights of men in society Tho 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 tho logical rigour with which a com- 

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



80 sclontiflc in spirit and method, and so popular in execution, we shall look in 

 vain for through libraries of political philoso])hy. — Leader. 



The careful reading wo have given it has both afforded us Intense pleasure, 

 and rendered It a duty to express, with unusual emphasis, our opinion of itt 

 gre»4 ability and excellence.— A'cncon/yrmi'tft 



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