The Principles of Sociology
The Principles of Sociology
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社会学原理
作者：
H. B.
有了这本书，斯宾塞先生完成了他三十六年来的“综合哲学”体系。这一事实给了他的序言一个非常特殊的兴趣，在那里他告诉尊严和储备的劣势和失望下，他的不懈的目的是通过进行。斯宾塞先生根据有机发展的概念对科学进行了全面的考察，这充分兑现了他对订户的承诺。但是，“《社会学原理》的前两卷已经扩展为三卷，而第三卷，如果写出来的话，现在就是第四卷，仍然没有写出来。这是一个进步的过程。”也许，斯宾塞先生是一位太多的先驱，他不希望对进化论科学的进步说最后一句话。但是，如果他对自己的解放（他把这种解放称为完成任务时的主要情感）的喜悦不是太大的话，我们可以大胆地希望这位大师的笔能对这个问题作出进一步的贡献。《社会学原理》，赫伯特·斯宾塞著。第三卷Pp. viii + 635。（伦敦：威廉姆斯和诺尔盖特，1896年）
WITH this volume Mr. Spencer has completed his system of “Synthetic Philosophy,” the work of thirty-six years. This fact gives a very special interest to his preface, where he tells with dignity and reserve of the disadvantages and disappointments under which his untiring purpose was carried through. Mr. Spencer's comprehensive survey of the sciences in the light of the conception of organic development has abundantly redeemed his promise to his subscribers. But “the first two volumes of the Principles of Sociology have expanded into three, and the third, which if written would now be the fourth, remains unwritten. It was to have treated of Progress.” Mr. Spencer has been too much of a pioneer, perhaps, to hope to say the last word of evolutionist science on progress. But if his pleasure in his emancipation, to which he refers as his dominant emotion on the completion of his task, be not too great, we may venture to hope for a further contribution on the subject from the master's pen.The Principles of Sociology.By Herbert Spencer. Vol. iii. Pp. viii + 635. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1896.)