Herbert Spencer wrote that the “typical structure” of a militant society can be seen in an army of conscripts.
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A clear and principled defense of individual liberty, private property and free enterprise, and the need for a limited government that would be narrowly...
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In Hofstadter's telling, Spencer was the driving force behind "social Darwinism," the pseudo-scientific use of evolution to justify economic and social...
196 months ago

Herbert Spencer, who has died aged 77, was one of the most influential British communication designers and typographers. By Rick Poynor.
272 months ago

Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, corecipient (with Joseph Erlanger) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for...
110 months ago

According to Kitcher, the whole ugly business is the fault of Herbert Spencer, a classical liberal thinker whose writings are (to understate) no longer widely...
152 months ago

A Victorian sociologist who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" and invented the paper clip has been honoured in Derby with a blue plaque.
128 months ago

Jake Wyatt Cigar Co. has some new cigars on store shelves and more on the way. The company has released a sampler featuring the five lines...
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An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.
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Before the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Suffolk County became “the global center of the eugenics movement,” eugenics had roots in...
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