First Principles

by

Herbert Spencer
1862

Part I   The Unknowable

• Chapter 1   Religion and Science

• Chapter 2   Ultimate Religious Ideas

• Chapter 3   Ultimate Scientific Ideas

• Chapter 4   The Relativity of all Knowledge

• Chapter 5   The Reconcilation

Part II   The Knowable

• Chapter 1     Philosophy Defined

• Chapter 2     The Data of Philosophy

• Chapter 3     Space, Time, Matter, Motion, and Force

• Chapter 4     The Indestructibility of Matter

• Chapter 5     The Continuity of Motion

• Chapter 6     The Persistence of Force

• Chapter 7     The Persistence of Relation Among Forces

• Chapter 8     The Transformation and Equivalence of Forces

• Chapter 9     The Direction of Motion

• Chapter 10   The Rhythm of Motion

• Chapter 11   Recapitulation, Criticism, and Recommencement

• Chapter 12   Evolution and Dissolution

• Chapter 13   Simple and Compound Evolution

• Chapter 14   The Law of Evolution

• Chapter 15   The Law of Evolution (continued)

• Chapter 16   The Law of Evolution (continued)

• Chapter 17   The Law of Evolution (concluded)

• Chapter 18   The Interpretation of Evolution

• Chapter 19   The Instability of the Homogenous Exemplifying Instability at Large

• Chapter 20   The Multiplication of Effects

• Chapter 21   Segregation

• Chapter 22   Equilibration

• Chapter 23   Dissolution

• Chapter 24   Summary and Conclusion