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English
Pages
454

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Table of Contents

Progress: its law and cause.
Manners and fashion.
The genesis of science.
The physiology of laughter.
The origin and function of music.
The nebular hypothesis.
Bain on the emotions and the will.
Illogical geology.
The development hypothesis.
The social organism.
Use and beauty.
The sources of architectural types.
The use of anthropomorphism.

Edition Notes

First published in English periodicals, chiefly the quarterly review, and issued in London with several other papers, under the title of "Essays, scientific, political and speculative," first and second series, 1857-1863. cf. Pref.

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
BS1653 .E7 1883

The Physical Object

Pagination
iv p., 1 l., 454 p.
Number of pages
454

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6562614M
Internet Archive
illustrationsofu00sp
LCCN
13025812
OCLC/WorldCat
3798993

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