Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3: Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.Spencer, Herbert
Philosophy
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3: Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.
Spencer, Herbert
Philosophy; Political science; Science
“. . . je ne dois pas négliger The order in which the
d’indiquer d’avance, comme une generalizations of science are
propriété essentielle de l’échelle established, is determined by
encyclopédique que je vais the frequency and impressiveness
proposer, sa conformité générale with which different classes
avec l’ensemble de l’histoire of relations are repeated in
scientifique; en ce sens, que, conscious experience; and this
malgré la simultanéité réelle et depends, partly on _the directness_
continue du développement des _with which personal welfare_
différentes sciences, celles qui _is affected_; partly on _the_
seront classées comme antérieures _conspicuousness of one or both the_
seront, en effet, plus anciennes _phenomena between which a relation_
et constamment plus avancées _is to be perceived_; partly on
que celles présentées comme _the absolute frequency with which_
postérieures.” p. 84. . . _the relations occur_; partly on
. . . . . . “Cet ordre est their _relative frequency of_
déterminé par le degré de _occurrence_; partly on their
simplicité, ou, ce qui revient au _degree of simplicity_; and partly
même, par le degré de généralité on their _degree of abstractness_.
des phénomènes.” p. 87. (_First Principles_, 1st ed., §
36; or otherwise see “_Essay on_
_Laws in General and the Order of_
_their Discovery_.”)
“En résultat définitif, la The sciences as arranged in this
mathématique, l’astronomie, succession specified by M. Comte,
la physique, la chimie, la _do not_ logically conform to the
physiologie, et la physique natural and invariable hierarchy
sociale; telle est la formule of phenomena; and {130} there
encyclopédique qui, parmi is no serial order whatever in
le très-grand nombre de which they can be placed, which
classifications que comportent les represents either their logical
six sciences fondamentales, est dependence or the dependence
seule logiquement conforme à la of phenomena. (See _Genesis of
hiérarchie naturelle et invariable Science_, and foregoing Essay.)
des phénomènes.”[17] p. 115.
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