CONTENTS

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Introduction [vii]
CHAP.
I. Heredity [1]
II. Nurture [7]
III. Period of Practical Work [17]
IV. Preparation for Life-Work [27]
V. Thinking out the Synthetic Philosophy [37]
VI. Characteristics: Physical and Intellectual [52]
VII. Characteristics: Emotional and Ethical [74]
VIII. Spencer as Biologist: The Data of Biology [93]
IX. Spencer as Biologist: Inductions of Biology [110]
X. Spencer as Champion of the Evolution-Idea [135]
XI. As regards Heredity [154]
XII. Factors of Organic Evolution [180]
XIII. Evolution Universal [209]
XIV. Psychological [232]
XV. Sociological [242]
XVI. The Population Question [259]
XVII. Beyond Science [269]
Conclusion [278]
Index [283]