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Herbert Spencer · 1898 · Scanned text · Free in the US

65,300 words · about 4 h 34 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1898, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/12038933); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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About this book

Author
Herbert Spencer
Language
English
Published
1898
Length
65,300 words · about 4 h 34 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Preface under 1 min
  2. Contents about 4 h 28 min
  3. IX. -method And Results about 6 min

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Preface

Several of the following fragments contain ideas and suggestions which ought not, I think, to remain buried, and practically lost, in their original places of publication. Preservation may, I think, prove to be of some importance. As for the rest, I do not know that they are all intrinsically of such value as to be worthy of a permanent form. But it has seemed that along with republication of the fragments of chief significance, there might fitly go a republication of those of less significance, which would not have been worth republishing by themselves.

H. S.

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