A discount will be allowed on advertisements standing four times, or over. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The Index finds the moral law alike applicable to collective and personal life: National morality is nothing but the necessary corollary and completion of individual morality, covering so much of the moral law of Nature as applies to men in their collective capacity as organized communities. Social morality, rightly viewed, covers still more of this law, as it applies to men in their social relations. Individual morality covers the whole of it, as it applies even in the most hidden recesses of thought, feeling, and volition. Morality in its triple aspect-national, social, and individual-constitutes the very foundation and groundwork of civilization; and the human species has no worse enemy than he who would enfeeble the sense of moral obligation in the community in any one of these three aspects. The Examiner does not want any gentry or "educated tramps" in America: To be a nation of workers, rich and poor alike doing their part in adding to the world's accumuIstion of freelth and wisdom, het battanthipre 10 UBM 1Guofed off we do to go - de pe doors open at any почти рецело 800 рев- в Kaxis iniqu um e se puede 1 A FIRST system of synthetic. PRINCIPLES OF A NEW SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. BY HERBERT SPENCER, AUTHOR OF "ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PROGRESS," "ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL AND ESTHETIC," "EDUCATION," ETC., ETC. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 448 & 445 BROADWAY. 1864. From the Library of Rev. H ̧'W, FOOTHE WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. PUBLISHED BY D. APPLETON & CO. EDUCATION-INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL. ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PROGRESS; A SERIES PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. In Quarterly Parts, by Subscription. NOW IN PRESS: ESSAYS-MORAL, POLITICAL, AND ESTHETIC. 1 vol., THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES; to which are added Copies sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. 17.455 5745.454 Vil 1864 PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. THE present volume is the first of a series designed to un fold the principles of a new philosophy. It is divided into two parts: the aim of the first being to determine the true sphere of all rational investigation, and of the second, to elucidate those fundamental and universal principles which science has established within that sphere, and which are to constitute the basis of the system. The scheme of truth developed in these First Principles is complete in itself, and has its independent value; but it is designed by the author to serve for guidance and verification in the construction of the succeeding and larger portions of his philosophic plan. Having presented in his introductory volume so much of the general principles of Physics as is essential to the development of his method, Mr. Spencer enters upon the subject of Organic nature. The second work of the series is to be the Principles of Biology-a systematic statement of the facts and laws which constitute the Science of Life. It is not to be an encyclopedic and exhaustive treatise upon this vast subject, but such a compendious presentation of its data and general principles as shall interpret the method of nature, afford a clear understanding of the questions involved, and prepare for further inquiries. This work is now published in quarterly numbers, of from 80 to 96 pages. Four of these parts have already appeared, and some idea of the course and character |