UNIV. OF -EDUCATION: - INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL. BY HERBERT SPENCER, AUTHOR OF "SOCIAL STATICS," "THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY," AND L 742 1760 WORKS BY HERBERT SPENCER. PUBLISHED BY D. APPLETON & CO. Miscellaneous Writings. EDUCATION-INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL. 1 vol., 12mo. 288 pages. Cloth. ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PROGRESS. 1 vol., large 12mo. 470 pages. Cloth. ESSAYS-MORAL, POLITICAL, AND ÆSTHETIC. 1 vol., large 12mo. 386 pages. SOCIAL STATICS; or, the conditions essential to human happiness specified, and the first of them developed. 1 vol., large 12mo. 523 pages. THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES; to which is added reasons for dissenting from the Philosophy of M. Comte. A pamphlet of 50 pages. Fine paper. System of Philosophy. FIRST PRINCIPLES, IN TWO PARTS-I. The Unknowable; II. Laws of the Knowable. 1 vol., large 12mo. 508 pages. Cloth. PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. Vol. 1, large 12mo. 475 pages. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, By D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. The Publishers take pleasure in offering to the American public the present work on Education, by an author who is eminent among the pioneer thinkers of the age. They believe no work has hitherto appeared which treats the various phases of the subject with equal discrimination and power. Mr. Spencer's researches into the science of life and laws of mental development, have peculiarly fitted him for the discussion of educational questions, for it is the results of such inquiries which lie at the foundation of the art of teaching. The body and the mind, the intellectual and the emotional powers, grow. The course of nature from the germ to the matured organism is through advanc ing complexity; how then can the best training be secured unless the order of unfolding, and the laws and conditions of growth be understood? The future of educational progress must depend largely upon such knowledge, and in applying a masterly analysis to the subject, and bringing to bear upon it the results of the latest science, the Author has performed for us a very important service. In this work is presented a thoroughly broad exposition of the general principles of Education. The Author's view is comprehensive; his mind, rich in analogies and pertinent in illustration, takes the widest survey, and is universal in its perception of the relations of subjects.⁕ There is no partisanship, but a catholicity which cannot be too much valued. While one urges the claims of intellectual education, another presses the requirements of a moral education, and a third insists upon the demands of physical training. All are of course important, but each may separately be carried too far; and there is great danger of this when the advocate limits his view to a single side: for these are not independent parts of our nature, to be cultivated singly, but reciprocally and vitally dependant; and he alone can speak with an authoritative voice upon this great subject, who recognizes their close relations, whose glance includes the whole field, and who harmonizes and balances the various elements so as to produce a healthy and symmetrical culture. * "Mr. Spencer is equally remarkable for his search after first principles; for his acute attempts to decompose mental phenomena into their primary elements; and for his broad generalizations of mental activity, viewed in connection with nature, instinct, and all the analogies presented by life in its universal aspects."—MedicoChirurgical Review, April, 1856. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. XV This is the special excellence of Mr. Spencer's work, which is fitly commenced by a lucid and able estimate of the relative value of the various forms of knowledge. In this country, where education is so large an element of state-policy, and such munificent provisions are made for universal instruction, but where the conflict of school systems, and the unsettled course of school management, admonish us of the incompleteness of our methods, we should hail with multiplied welcomes every worthy effort of the world's organizing minds to evolve guiding principles, and establish the teacher's vocation upon a more extended basis. These considerations may justify the strong desire of Mr. Spencer's friends on this side of the Atlantic, that this book, which could not be published in Eng. land, should be issued here. It is put forth in the hope that it will prove useful to parents, instructors, and school directors, and become a valuable addition to the literature of education; and, at the same time, serve to make known an author, the strength and depth of whose thought is as remarkable as the clearness and vigor of style in which it is expressed. |