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Herbert Spencer / Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliot, Hugh, 1881-1930, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Biography.
- Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
- Spencer, Herbert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1917.
- Summary:
- Whatever may be thought to-day of the value of Herbert Spencer's writings, no one who wishes to understand the thought of the nineteenth century can neglect him. His system of philosophy influenced his generation, not only in England, but in America and elsewhere; even those most profoundly antagonistic to it thought it necessary to reckon with it and answer it: in science, though not entirely in accord with Darwin, he helped to popularise evolutionary ideas; in politics he represented, if he did not lead, a body of opinion which had great influence in his day, an influence which even in these warlike times, so abhorrent as they would have been to Spencer, is not entirely dead.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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