Excerpt from Herbert Spencer

Whatever may be thought to-day of the value of 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. Mr. Elliot"s qualifications for the task of expounding Herbert Spencer"s already almost neglected tenets to the present generation are well brought out in his introductory chapter.

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