'Principles of Biology (1864, 1867; retractata et amplificata: 1898), in duobus voluminibus
Volumen I: Pars I: The Data of Biology; Pars II: The Inductions of Biology; Pars III: The Evolution of Life; Appendices
Volume II: Pars IV: Morphological Development; Pars V: Physiological Development; Pars VI: Laws of Multiplication; Appendices
Principles of Psychology (1870, 1880), in duobus voluminibus
Volumen I: Pars I: The Data of Psychology; Pars II: The Inductions of Psychology; Pars III: General Synthesis; Pars IV: Special Synthesis; Pars V: Physical Synthesis; Appendix
Volumen II: Pars VI: Special Analysis; Pars VII: General Analysis; Pars VIII: Congruities; Pars IX: Corollaries
Principles of Sociology, in tribus voluminibus
Volumen I (1874–75; amplificatum 1876, 1885): Pars I: Data of Sociology; Pars II: Inductions of Sociology; Pars III: Domestic Institutions
Volumen II: Para IV: Ceremonial Institutions (1879); Para V: Political Institutions (1882); Para VI [in nonnullis editionibus]: Ecclesiastical Institutions (1885)
Volumen III: Pars VI [in nonnullis editionibus]: Ecclesiastical Institutions (1885); Pars VII: Professional Institutions (1896); Pars VIII: Industrial Institutions (1896); Referentiae
Volumen I: Pars I: The Data of Ethics (1879); Pars II: The Inductions of Ethics (1892); Pars III: The Ethics of Individual Life (1892); Referentiae
Volumen II: Pars IV: The Ethics of Social Life: Justice (1891); Pars V: The Ethics of Social Life: Negative Beneficence (1892); Pars VI: The Ethics of Social Life: Positive Beneficence (1892); Appendices
Descriptive Sociology; or Groups of Sociological Facts, parts 1–8, a Spencer classificata et ordinata, compilata et descripta a David Duncan, Richard Schepping, et James Collier (Londinii, Williams & Norgate, 1873–1881).
Congeries commentariorum
Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions (1864, 1883)
The Man versus the State (1884)
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891), in tribus voluminibus:
Volumen I ("The Development Hypothesis," "Progress: Its Law and Cause," "The Factors of Organic Evolution," et alii commentarii)
Volumen II ("The Classification of the Sciences", "The Philosophy of Style" (1852), "The Origin and Function of Music," "The Physiology of Laughter," et alii commentarii)
Volumen III ("The Ethics of Kant," "State Tamperings With Money and Banks," "Specialized Administration," "From Freedom to Bondage," "The Americans," et alii commentarii)
Anglice: "The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell and that was in the 20th century."
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