Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Darwinist, philosopher and sociologist                          

Selected Works:

On The Proper Sphere of Government - 1842
Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed - 1851
The Right to Ignore the State, Chapter XIX of the first edition of Social Statics
Social Statics: Abridged and Revised - 1892
A Theory of Population - 1852
Principles of Psychology - 1855, first edition, issued in one volume
Education - 1861

System of Synthetic Philosophy -  in ten volumes
First Principles - 1862
Principles of Biology - 1864, 1867; revised: 1898, in two volumes:

Volume I 
Part I: The Data of Biology; 
Part II: The Inductions of Biology; Part III: The Evolution of Life; Appendices

Volume II
Part IV: Morphological Development; Part V: Physiological Development; Part VI: Laws of Mutiplication; Appendices

Principles of Psychology - 1870, 1880, in two volumes
Volume I - Part I: The Data of Pscyhology; Part II: The Inductions of Pscyhology; Part III: General Synthesis; Part IV: Special Synthesis; Part V: Physical Synthesis; Appendix
Volume II - Part VI: Special Analysis; Part VII: General Analysis; Part VIII: Congruities; Part IX: Corollaries

Principles of Sociology, in three volumes
Volume I - 1874-75; enlarged 1876, 1885 - Part I: Data of Sociology; Part II: Inductions of Sociology; Part III: Domestic Institutions
Volume II - Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions - 1879; Part V: Political Institutions - 1882; Part VI [published here in some editions]: Ecclesiastical Institutions - 1885
Vollume III - Part VI - published here in some editions: Ecclesiastical Institutions - 1885; Part VII: Professional Institutions - 1896; Part VIII: Industrial Institutions - 1896; References

The Principles of Ethics - 1897, in two volumes
Volume I - Part I: The Data of Ethics - 1879; Part II: The Inductions of Ethics - 1892; Part III: The Ethics of Individual Life - 1892; References
Volume II - Part IV: The Ethics of Social Life: Justice - 1891; Part V: The Ethics of Social Life: Negative Beneficence - 1892; Part VI: The Ethics of Social Life: Positive Beneficence - 1892; Appendices

The Study of Sociology - 1873, 1896
An Autobiography - 1904, in two volumes
1 Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan - 1908
2 Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan - 1908
Descriptive Sociology; or Groups of Sociological Facts, parts 1-8, classified and arranged by Spencer, compiled and abstracted by David Duncan, Richard Schepping, and James Collier - 1873 - 1881

Essay Collections:
Ilustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions - 1864, 1883
The Man Versus the State - 1884

Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative - 1891, in three volumes:
Volume I - includes The Development Hypothesis, Progress: Its Law and Cause, The Factors of Organic Evolution and others
Volume II - includes The Classification of the Sciences, The Philosophy of Style - 1852, The Origin and Function of Music, The Physiology of Laughter, and others
Volume III - includes The Ethics of Kant, State Tamperings With Money and Banks, Specialized Administration, From Freedom to Bondage, The Americans
Various Fragments - 1897, enlarged 1900
Facts and Comments - 1902.                          

Mother 
Father William George Spencer                          

He claimed that it is impossible for us to have certain knowledge of God. He rejected theology as representing the 'impiety of the pious.'