Herbert Spencer: The Man and his Work E-Book

William Henry Hudson

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

William Henry Hudson, professor of English Literature in the Leland Stanford Junior University, published his essay Herbert Spencer: The Man and his Work in February 1897 on the Popular Science Monthly magazine. We propose it again today to our readers, with the hope that it can contribute to making known and spreading the thoughts of Herbert Spencer, one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century, but also an excellent psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.

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SYMBOLS & MYTHS

WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

HERBERT SPENCER:

THE MAN AND HIS WORK

Edizioni Aurora Boreale

Title: Herbert Spencer: The Man and his Work

Author: William Henry Hudson

Publishing series: Symbols & Myths

Editing by Nicola Bizzi

ISBN: 979-12-5504-407-9

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INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER

William Henry Hudson, professor of English Literature in the Leland Stanford Junior University, published his essay Herbert Spencer: The Man and his Work in February 1897 on the Popular Science Monthly magazine. We propose it again today to our readers, with the hope that it can contribute to making known and spreading the thoughts of Herbert Spencer, one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century, but also an excellent psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.

Nicola Bizzi

September 12, 2023.

Herbert Spencer

HERBERT SPENCER: THE MAN AND HIS WORK

In a famous passage in his autobiography, Edward Gibbon has told us of the mingled emotions with which, on a memorable night in June, 1787, he penned the last lines of the last page of his History, and thus closed the undertaking of many laborious years. In a somewhat similar, though at once more dignified and more touching strain, Mr. Spencer, in the preface to his recently published third volume of the Principles of Sociology, has set on record his feelings on reviewing his finished life-work—a work beside which even the vast enterprise of Gibbon sinks into insignficance: "Doubtless in earlier years some exultation would have resulted; but as age creeps on feelings weaken, and now my chief pleasure is in my emancipation. Still, there is satisfaction in the consciousness that losses, discouragements, and shattered health have not prevented me from fulfilling the purpose of my life".