Herbert Spencer

[Spencer Thiel]

I believe that he was actually the coiner of the phrase "survival of the
fittest", usually credited to Darwin and now totally assosciated with
Darwin.  What's that called again?


At 05:42 PM 12/28/98 -0500, you wrote:

>Herbert Stencil wasn't such a bad guy but Herbert Spencer is
>associated with Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest carried into the
>social and cultural order, justification for conservative politics and 
>colonialism. Not likely to be popular on the p-list.
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Spencer T.