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Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy
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Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy
Eds. Greta Jones and Robert A. Peel
The Galton Institute, London, 2004
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was a contemporary and fairly close friend of Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics, with whom we learn he "spent an hour or two on many afternoons" in the smoking room of the Athenaeum Club in London. Both were inspired admirers of Darwinian theory. But the impact of Darwinian thought on these two great minds was essentially different. Whereas Galton stressed the importance of race and heredity, Spencer focused more on competition and the "survival of the fittest," interpreting both in terms of the individual, rather than in …
