Evolution; Knowledge, Theory of; Philosophy and religion
IV. MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.—Pointing out the relations that are
everywhere traceable between organic forms and the average of the
various forces to which they are subject; and seeking in the
cumulative effects of such forces a theory of the forms.
V. PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.—The progressive differentiation of
functions similarly traced; and similarly interpreted as
consequent upon the exposure of different parts of organisms to
different sets of conditions.
VI. THE LAWS OF MULTIPLICATION.—Generalizations respecting the
rates of reproduction of the various classes of plants and
animals; followed by an attempt to show the dependence of these
variations upon certain necessary causes.[2]
THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY.
VOL. I.
PART I. THE DATA OF PSYCHOLOGY.—Treating of the general connexions
of Mind and Life and their relations to other modes of the
Unknowable.
II. THE INDUCTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY.—A digest of such generalizations
respecting mental phenomena as have already been empirically
established.
III. GENERAL SYNTHESIS.—A republication, with additional chapters,
of the same part in the already-published _The Principles of
Psychology_.
IV. SPECIAL SYNTHESIS.—A republication, with extensive revisions
and additions, of the same part, &c. &c.
V. PHYSICAL SYNTHESIS.—An attempt to show the manner in which the
succession of states of consciousness conforms to a certain
fundamental law of nervous action that follows from the First
Principles laid down at the outset.
VOL. II.
VI. SPECIAL ANALYSIS.—As at present published, but further
elaborated by some additional chapters.
VII. GENERAL ANALYSIS.—As at present published, with several
explanations and additions.
VIII. COROLLARIES.—Consisting in part of a number of derivative
principles which form a necessary introduction to Sociology.[3]
THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY.
VOL. I.
PART I. THE DATA OF SOCIOLOGY.—A statement of the several sets of
factors entering into social phenomena—human ideas and feelings
considered in their necessary order of evolution; surrounding
natural conditions; and those ever complicating conditions to
which Society itself gives origin.
II. THE INDUCTIONS OF SOCIOLOGY.—General facts, structural and
functional, as gathered from a survey of Societies and their
changes: in other words, the empirical generalizations that are
arrived at by comparing different societies, and successive phases
of the same society.
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