#HerbertSpencer

“He was the most famous philosopher alive in 1880 and nearly unread by 1930 — the man who coined "survival of the fittest," built a philosophy for everything on one science, and went down with it.”

“Everything — stars, species, minds, societies — evolves by one universal law, from simple sameness toward complex, specialized order; and human societies are evolving organisms whose organs exist to serve their individual members, never the other way around.”