Herbert Spencer

Spencer at the age of 73 Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in ''Principles of Biology'' (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book ''On the Origin of Species''. The term strongly suggests natural selection, yet Spencer saw evolution as extending into realms of sociology and ethics, so he also supported Lamarckism.

Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology. During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia. Spencer was "the single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century" but his influence declined sharply after 1900: "Who now reads Spencer?" asked Talcott Parsons in 1937. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1902
    New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1902-03; v. 1: 1903.
    2 v. diagrs. 21 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1906
    ʻAlīgaṛh : Anjuman Taraqqī-yi Urdū, 1906.
    lxi, 304 p. ; 21 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1875
    Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1875.
    2 v. in 1. 19 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1895
    New York, Appleton, 1895, 1880.
    2 v. diagrs. 21 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1879
    New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co. [1879]
    334 p.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1867
    London : Williams and Norgate, 1867.
    xvi, 559 ; 23 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1897
    New York, D. Appleton and company, 1897.
    2 v. illus. 20 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1880
    London : Williams and Norgate, 1880.
    [536]-586 p. ; 22 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1883
    New York, D. Appleton and company, 1883.
    2 p. ℓ., [iii]-xxvii, [v]-viii, 288 p. 19 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1911
    Dhāravāḍa : Dhāravāḍa Karnātaka Granthaprasāraka Maṇḍaladinda Prakāśisalpaṭṭide, 1911.
    xiv, 329 p. ; 18 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1873
    London [etc.] Williams and Norgate, 1873-19.
    v. 50 cm.
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    New York : A.L. Burt, [18--?]
    309 p. : port. ; 19 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1910
    Paris, 1910.
    212 p.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1906
    ʻAlīgaṛh : Anjuman Taraqqī-yi Urdū, 1906.
    1 online resource (lxi, 304 p.)
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1910
    London, Edinburgh : Williams & Norgate, 1910, c1884.
    2 p. 1., ii p., 1 l., 114 p. ; 23 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1902
    New York : D. Appleton, 1902, c1900.
    xviii, 550 p. ; 20 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1896
    New York : D. Appleton and company, 1896 [c1892]
    431 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1880
    New York : American Publishers, c1880.
    xiv, 508 p. ; 20 cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1907
    London : Williams & Norgate ; 1907.
    viii,264 p. cm.
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    by Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
    Published 1882
    New York : D. Appleton and company, 1882, c1864.
    xx, 592 p. ; 20 cm.
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