Abstract
NOT long since, an announcement appeared in NATURE of Mr. Herbert Spncer's plan of publishing, not a complete and finished treatise on Sociology, but a collection of classified materials for the use of students and investigators. The origin of this important work is explained in the following extract from the preface o Part 1., which has now appeared.
Descriptive Sociology; or, Groups of Sociological Facts.
Classied and arranged by Herbert Spencer. No. I.—English compiled and abstracted by James Collier. (London: Williams & Norgate.)
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TYLOR, E. Spencer's Descriptive Sociology . Nature 8, 544–547 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008544a0
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