Who is Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The term strongly suggests natural selection, yet Spencer saw evolution as extending into realms of sociology and ethics, so he also supported Lamarckism.Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics,...
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Shantharmohan: "science is organized knowledge." - herbert spencer
Royjsnell: herbert spencer coined the phrase “the survival of the fittest.” there was a point in our history that the strongest survived and reproduced and the weak did not. the genetic makeup of humans got stronger. that is no longer the case.
Cerebralwisdom: every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - herbert spencer
Kuye_ade: every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - herbert spencer
Cerebralwisdom: strong as it looks at the outset, state-agency perpetually disappoints every one. puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. - herbert spencer
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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

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