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 generation of ...

“The ‘Arry ’ of philosophy.” — “Aristotle and his master were not more beyond the pygmies who preceded them than he is beyond Aristotle.” “Herbert Spencer’s cliromo-philosophy.”— “No other man that ...

In this fascinating study, Werth (The Scarlet Professor) shows how the idea of social Darwinism, as codified by Herbert Spencer, took hold in the United States, underpinning the philosophy of the ...