This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...In this way Spencer almost became the official philosopher of the scientific world, and in his great formula of evolution he sought to give a comprehensive interpretation to the whole cosmic movement in its organic and inorganic forms, and also in mind and society and history. On all these accounts the system had for a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...In this way Spencer almost became the official philosopher of the scientific world, and in his great formula of evolution he sought to give a comprehensive interpretation to the whole cosmic movement in its organic and inorganic forms, and also in mind and society and history. On all these accounts the system had for a time great popularity. It impressed by its size and apparent completeness. It was more than human and terrestrial in its sweep; it was cosmic and universal. This grandiosity agreed with the temper of the time and was an additional attraction. In the self-confidence and the historical and critical ignorance of the time, all things were supposed to have been made new, and the last word in philosophy had been spoken. The "Synthetic Philosophy" had come. Our aim in these lectures is to consider the philosophical and logical basis of the system. Of course, in so extensive a scheme by so able a man as Spencer we should expect to find a great deal of value in the way of detached observations and special reflections, etc.; and all of this would be compatible with essential weakness in the basal ideas and the systematic construction. Locke's philosophy is incredibly inconsistent, but his great "Essay" is a storehouse of valuable material. Spencer's philosophy may be found equally wanting, but his works may still point to a master mind as their author. A system, however, depends only on its logic. An incoherent system is none. In the history of philosophy nothing abides but those ideas which are established in the nature of reason itself. All other things, sooner or later, go to pieces, serving possibly as the raw material for later construction, but really amounting to little in the great thought movement whereby reason seeks to ma...
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