Spencer's ideas laid the groundwork for social Darwinism, but scholars say there was much more to the Victorian Age thinker than that.
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Herbert Spencer, who has died aged 77, was one of the most influential British communication designers and typographers. By Rick Poynor.
272 months ago

The Herbert Spencer uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Dominican binder and Dominican fillers. It's offered in five sizes, four of which are regular...
54 months ago

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

“My freedom ends where yours begins” is the sort of truism most people happily relate to, when discussing politics and whatever idea of...
64 months ago

April 27th marks the birthday of Herbert Spencer, who merits attention in several respects. He was a polymath who made important...
79 months ago

Cambridge University Press has released a short new book by Jeffrey O'Connell and Michael Ruse on Social Darwinism that is likely to infuriate quite a few...
43 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...
151 months ago

Herbert Spencer helped liberate Japan, Egypt, and India. Independence movements around the world drew inspiration from his anti-imperialist views.
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Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, corecipient (with Joseph Erlanger) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for...
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