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Books Received Published: 06 April 1935 Herbert Spencer's Sociology: a Study in the History of Social Theory, to which is appended a Bibliography of Spencer and his Work Nature 135, 527 (1935 ...

History of Political Thought (HPT) is a quarterly journal which was launched in 1980 to fill a genuine academic need for a forum for work in this multidisciplinary area. Although a subject central to ...

One said Shakespeare, another chose Dante. Carnegie didn't hesitate. "Herbert Spencer," he said. Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 - 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher.

Society is in Spencer's work a contradiction, or at the very least a paradox: it is at once an organism and a fiction, a theory and a metaphor. It was indeed all very confusing, even, one suspects, to ...

Mr. Herbert Spencer having been asked to allow his name to be submitted to the Liberal Association at Leicester as a candidate for Mr. Peter Taylor's seat, has written declining the invitation on ...

Herbert Spencer was once considered a towering figure in Western intellectual life. The ideas expounded by this “eminent Victorian” philosopher were imprinted on the minds of an entire ...