Herbert Spencer
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Mr. Herbert Spencer · Mr. Spencer · Spencer
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Law in a Free State
English philosopher whose teachings the author credits for the growth of individualism in England.
Herbert Spencer.
Herbert Spencer for the use of the knowledge given to the world in his First Principles.
Spencer) even the most impatient reformers now recognise the fact that a State is an organism and not an artificial structure to be pulled to pieces and put together on a new model whenever it pleases the effective majority to do so.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Philosopher associated with 'absolute individualism' in the passage's classification of schools of opinion.
fine and subtle distinctions, such as the speculative differences which divide the absolute individualism of Herbert Spencer on the one hand, from the practical or utilitarian individualism of J.
Such easy-going confidence on the part of ordinary Englishmen in the infinitely small effect of legislation, whether good or bad, may be pardoned when we reflect that a systematic thinker such as Herbert Spencer, in many of his strictures on the failure of legislation to achieve its avowed object, makes far too little allowance for the long latent period which often elapses before results appear.
The true ground of Herbert Spencer’s attack on utilitarianism is that the utilitarians, in the pursuit of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, often sacrificed the freedom of individuals to the real or supposed benefit of the State, i.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Sociologist author of 'Principles of Sociology', quoted on classification of ancestor-worshipping societies.
In harmony with this theory, the various societies of mankind, in their relation to belief in a spirit world, have been thus classed by Mr.
Applied Eugenics
British philosopher and social theorist who argued strongly for the inheritance of acquired characteristics and claimed evolution was impossible without it.
(1) It is frequently argued (as Herbert Spencer himself suggested) that unless modifications are inherited, there could be no such thing as evolution.
Herbert Spencer thought one of the strongest pieces of evidence in this category was to be found in the assimilation of foreigners in the United States.
Herbert Spencer cited the prevalence of short-sightedness among the "notoriously studious" Germans as a defect due to the inheritance of an acquired character.