Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy) - Softcover

Bagehot, Walter

 
9781108023542: Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy)

Synopsis

A discussion of the scientific principles of progress in a society incorporating elements of evolutionary theory, first published in 1872.

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Book Description

Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) was an eminent British journalist and political observer. This book, first published in 1872, and here reissued from the second (1873) edition, contains Bagehot's discussion of the principles of social progress, providing a valuable example of the influence of evolutionary thought in the late nineteenth century.

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