Herbert Spencer:
The Survival of the Fittest
The most memorable idea Of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
was his assertion that the passing Of time witnesses •the survival of the fittest."
Many pet»le associate this immortal phrase with the theory of species e•olution
de•eloped by the natural scienti< Charles Darwin (1809-1882). The expression
was actually Spencer's, howe.'er, and he used it to räer to not to Irving
creatures. In it, we find not only an example Of early analysis,
but a controversial theory that r«lects the popular view in Spencer's day that
biology.Spencer's ideas, which came to be knwm as social
Darwinism, re
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