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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)

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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)

Herbert Spencer

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What is life, and how does the living correspond to its circumstances? Herbert Spencer builds a vast philosophy of biology, tracing the actions of forces on organic matter and the meaning of metabolism. Sweeping, systematic, and ambitious. This first volume lays the foundations of his great biological synthesis. For readers drawn to grand theories of life. Enter Spencer's sweeping architecture of the living world.

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50 chapters

  1. 1Preface to the Revised and Enlarged Edition.
  2. 2Preface.
  3. 3Contents of Vol. I.
  4. 4Part I. The Data of Biology.
  5. 5I. Organic Matter.
  6. 6II. The Actions of Forces on Organic Matter.
  7. 7III. The Re-actions of Organic Matter on Forces.
  8. 8IIIa. Metabolism.
  9. 9IV. Proximate Conception of Life.
  10. 10V. The Correspondence between Life and its Circumstances.
  11. 11VI. The Degree of Life Varies as the Degree of Correspondence.
  12. 12VIa. The Dynamic Element in Life.
  13. 13VII. The Scope of Biology.
  14. 14Part II. The Inductions of Biology.
  15. 15I. Growth.
  16. 16II. Development.
  17. 17IIa. Structure.
  18. 18III. Function.

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