Herbert Spencer Series

Herbert Spencer was a prominent Victorian-era thinker whose expansive work explored an all-embracing concept of evolution as the progressive development across the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and societies. An enthusiastic exponent of evolutionary ideas, he developed these concepts across a wide range of disciplines, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, biology, sociology, and psychology. Spencer is most notably recognized for coining the phrase "survival of the fittest," a concept he adapted from Darwin's work and extended into the realms of sociology and ethics.