THE SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY 



HERBERT SPENCER. 



FIRST PRINCIPLES. 



1 vol. $2.00. 



CONTENTS. 



Part I.— The Unknowable. 



1 Religion and Science. 



2. Ultimate Religious Ideas. 



3. Ultimate Scientific Ideas. 



4. The Relativity of all Knowl 



edge. 



5. The Reconciliation. 



Part II. — The Knowable. 



1. Philosophy defined. 



2. The Data of Philosophy. 



3. Space, Time, Matter, Motion, 



and Force. 



4. The Indestructibility of Matter. 



5. The Continuity of Motion. 



6. The Persistence of Force. 



T. The Persistence of Relations 

 among Forces. 



8. The Transformation and Equiv- 



alence of Forces. 



9. The Direction of Motion. 



10. The Rhythm of Motion. 



11. Recapitulation, Criticism, and 



Recommencement. 



12. Evolution and Dissolution. 



24. Summary 



13. Simple and Compound Evolu- 



tion. 



14. The Law of Evolution. 



15. The Law of Evolution (con- 



tinued). 



16. The Law of Evolution (con- 



tinued). 



17. The Law of Evolution (con- 



cluded). 



1 8. The Interpretation of Evolution. 



19. The Instability of the Homoge- 



neous. 



20. The Multiplication of Effects. 



21. Segregation. 



22. Equilibration. 



23. Dissolution, 

 and Conclusion. 



THE PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. 



2 vols. §4.00. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



Part I. — The Data of Biology. 



1. Organic Matter. 



2. The Actions of Forces on Or- 



ganic Matter. 

 8. The Reactions of Organic Mat- 

 ter on Forces. 



1. The Scope of Biology. 



4. Proximate Definition of Life. 



5. The Correspondence between 



Life and its Circumstances. 



6. The Degree of Life varies as the 

 Degree of Correspondence. 



