In the 1860s and 1870s Herbert Spencer was the foremost living English philosopher. But he was so speculative that by 1880 in England his works rivaled those of Charles Darwin or John Stuart Mill only among libertarians and readers astonished by his...

Herbert Spencer is chiefly remembered as an evolutionary philosopher, as one of the founders of sociology, and as a defender of a libertarian version of classical liberalism. He described the evolutionary process and applied it to psychology and...

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an important part in the development of economics, political...

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an important part in the development of economics, political science,...