Herbert Spencer

As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer ...

In the year of her revised Key-Notes, and at the urging of Herbert Spencer , LSB contributed to Mind a scientific or philosophical essay entitled The Personal Aspect of Responsibility.

This essay begins from the seventeenth-century salonnière (who was also a maxim-writer in the manner of her friend the duc de La Rochefoucauld , and may indeed have influenced him). It assesses the relative state...

This essay embodies moments of what today would be called racism as it makes reference to social Darwinism (the theory originated by LSB 's friend Herbert Spencer , that extrapolates Darwinian evolutionary theory to justify...

In this essay she seeks to differentiate anarchist communism from individualism as represented by Herbert Spencer . She quotes his argument against Socialism, which is there is no political alchemy by which you can get...

Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the...

CN had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins , who later...

Studies in General Science was written around the same time that the works of evolutionary theorists Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer were gaining popularity. With belief in traditional Christian doctrine now threatened by scientific discovery,...

The title for the book was taken in part from George Eliot , who originally coined the phrase meliorist when a friend playfully referred to her as an optimist: I will not answer to the...

Quotations about sympathy on the title-page come from George Henry Lewes (in his life of Goethe) and from Arnold Toynbee . EL 's earliest heroine, then Espérance de Mabillon, makes a cameo appearance with her...

CN joined several debating societies, among them in this year the sociological section, founded in early 1883, of the Birmingham Natural History Society , whose central concern was the work of Herbert Spencer .

Those returning thanks for complimentary copies included Herbert Spencer , Samuel Smiles (full of profound truth), Charles Lapworth (an education to read), and William Tilden (who politely dissents from Lewins's opinion...

Reviews of JHC 's book, mostly positive, appeared almost immediately in The Academy, the Athenæum, the Westminster Review and The Saturday Review, among others.A glowing notice in the Westminster, for...

As a philosophic thinker, CN won the admiration not only of Lewins but also of Herbert Spencer —who, however, felt that her early death proved the unsuitability of philosophy for women: the mental powers so...

Plumptre was an Individualist and an admirer of the social and evolutionary philosophy of Herbert Spencer . She favoured social reform, though without any deep understanding of actual social conditions. Regarding her own stance...