Author:Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

See biography, quotes. English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. He developed a conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He is best known for coining the phrase "survival of the fittest".

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• The Proper Sphere of Government (1843)
• Social Statics (1851)
• The Principles of Psychology (1855)
• Essays, Scientific, Political and Speculative 3 vol. (1858-1863)
• First Principles (1862)
• Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical (1861)
• The Principles of Biology 2 vol. (1864-1867)
• The Study of Sociology (1873)
• The Principles of Sociology 3 vol. (1874-1896)
• The Principles of Ethics 2 vol. (1879-1893)
• The Man 'versus' the State (1884)
• The Factors of Organic Evolution (1893)
• Various Fragments (1897)
• Facts and Comments (1902)
• Autobiography 2 vol. (1904)

[edit] Articles

• The Americans (1882)

[edit] Works about Spencer

• Herbert Spencer article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature