The Liberty Archive FREECAPITALISTS.ORG

First published 1898

The Principles of Sociology (1898, 3 vols.)

The Principles of Sociology (1898, 3 vols.) by Herbert Spencer is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Herbert Spencer
First published
1898
Format
PDF and EPUB
Publisher
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898 (3 vols.); Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Spencer's largest work on sociology, issued in parts from 1876 to 1896 and collected here in the three-volume Appleton edition of 1898. It applies evolutionary principles to human societies, tracing the family, ceremonial, political, ecclesiastical, and industrial institutions from simple to complex forms, and contains his militant versus industrial types of society.

Portrait of Herbert Spencer

About the author

Herbert Spencer 1820–1903

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was one of the leading 19th-century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire magazine The Economist in the 1850s. Read more about Herbert Spencer.

Community

Discuss this book

No thread on Mises Community names this book yet. Start one.

Keep reading

More by Herbert Spencer