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Web Links
| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | | This site provides a detailed overview of Spencer's political and moral philosophy, as well as his views on human nature and religion.
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/spencer.htm
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| Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903 | | This site provides bibliographical references for Spencer, including those explaining how his theory relates to the theories of other social thinkers. You can also find links to his original works.
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http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/spencer.htm
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| First Principles, 1862 | | This site provides the full text of Spencer's First Principles.
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http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/spencer/firprin.html
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| Georg Simmel | | This link contains the original text from Chapter 19 ("Right to Ignore the State") of Spencer's Social Statics.
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http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/personal/DHart/ETexts/Liberalism/HerbertSpencer/SocialSta...
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| Man versus the State, 1884 | | This site provides the original text of Spencer's Man versus the State.
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http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/spencer/manvssta
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| Use and Beauty, 1852 | | This site provides a short piece from Spencer's work entitled "Use and Beauty." In it he discusses the concept of ornaments.
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http://prof.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/~hhirano/academia/spencer.htm
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| Reflections Upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer | | This site provides a copy of Charles Horton Cooley's article "Reflections upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer" in the American Journal of Sociology 26 (1920): 129-45.
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http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/cooley/Cooley_1920.html
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| Spencer's Influence on Andrew Carnegie | | This site provides an interesting summary on how the industrial capitalist Andrew Carnegie was influenced by Spencer's work.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande03.html
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| The Dead Sociologists' Index | | This site provides a summary of Spencer's key ideas, bibliographic information on his life, and a link to his text The Principles of Sociology.
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http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML#spencer
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| Herbert Spencer: The Apostle of Freedom | | This article, written by Ronald Cooney, provides a good overview of Spencer's views on individual freedom and places him within the political ideology of libertarianism.
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http://www.libertyhaven.com/thinkers/herberspencer/herbertspencer.html
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