The first systematic handbook of the new, scientific, experimental psychology. Wilhelm Wundt's work is widely credited with introducing the new, scientific, experimental psychology to the world.

This volume presents work by Peter Annet, long considered by many to have been one of the most aggressive deists of the 18th-century.

This volume presents a series of lectures on Spencer: his earlier work, preparation for the Synthetic Philosophy, the Spencerian sociology; Spencer's ethical system; and the religious aspects of Spencerian philosophy. Also included is a biographical sketch of Spencer.

Emphasizing the influence of the mind on the body, Charles Tuckey was among the first to describe the potential therapeutic effects of hypnotic suggestion on a wide range of diseases.

The themes of this volume are the politics of nonconformist radicalism, the universality of natural law and the existence of a moral sense. It also includes Spencer's vision of a pure democracy, in which the vote was available to all, regardless of age, sex or property or qualification.

Analyzing and rejecting various arguments adduced against the continuity of descent as applied to human mind and building a positive case based on presumed parrallels between ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, Romanes presented the classic 19th-century account of the origin of human faculty.