Herbert Spencer

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English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)

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Another line of thinkers, unified by the recurrent publications of Herbert Spencer, also saw co-adaptation as a composed, irreducible whole, but sought to explain it by the inheritance of acquired characteristics." Source: Internet

Despite the fact that social Darwinism bears Charles Darwin's name, it is also linked today with others, notably Herbert Spencer, Thomas Malthus, and Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics. Source: Internet

Herbert Spencer in Britain and William Graham Sumner were the leading neo-classical liberal theorists of the 19th century. Source: Internet

David Duncan, The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer (Methuen, 1908), p. 302. The passage Gladstone alluded to was one where Spencer had spoken of "the behaviour of the so-called Liberal party". Source: Internet

By the 1870s, Herbert Spencer and other classical liberals concluded that historical development was turning against them. Source: Internet

Despite Carnegie's personal dedication to Herbert Spencer as a friend, his adherence to Spencer's political and economic ideas is more contentious. Source: Internet

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