Herbert Spencer

'Do you happen to recall Herbert Spencer's defi - nition of "Life"?

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

'Do you happen to recall Herbert Spencer's definition of "Life"?

Can Such Things Be 1893

To paraphrase Herbert Spencer, to shoot fairly well is a manly accomplishment, but to shoot too well is evidence of an ill-spent youth.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885

Earlier Liberals, such as Herbert Spencer, thought that reform should be limited to the removal of state interference with individual liberty.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

[5]: The existence of vital units is conceded by some of the staunchest materialists, such as Herbert Spencer, Professor Bastian and others.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

This is the report of Justin McCarthy, who was a frequent visitor on Sunday afternoons at the Priory, the home of George Eliot, where many distinguished visitors, such as Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, and Huxley, loved to gather.

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

M. Jules Ferry fantastically supposes to be 'Herbert Spencer's' gospel, identifying duty with self-indulgence!

France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

Nazi exponents of "scientific racism", communists who believed in a collectivist future for humanity, anarchists who followed Peter Kropotkin in thinking evolutionary theory vindicated the importance of mutual aid, advocates of laissez-faire such as Herbert Spencer (who invented the expression "survival of the fittest") and high priests of social engineering such as Lord Beveridge - a long-standing advocate of eugenics, as Sewell demonstrates - can't all be right.

New Statesman John Gray 2009

To-day even those who most abhor Marxism have to admit that he was a much more important historical force than such contemporary political figures as Gladstone, Disraeli, or Queen Victoria, or philosophers such as Herbert Spencer, Cardinal Newman, or August Comte, who seemed to be great in their own time.

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"Do you happen to recall Herbert Spencer's definition of 'Life'?

Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878