Spencer, Herbert : (1820-1903), English philosopher; he insisted on a synthesis of knowledge from scientific observation of biological & social phenomena.
... incites the whole species in a definite direction. The striving of the organism is a creative effort to which evolution is due.10 Herbert Spencer Among the alternative explanations of the evolutionary process, we may also refer to Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), Page 9 who questioned the assumption that life always came from life. He attempted to give a philosophical account ...
... innate, the execution in the present and the future as imperative as it had been in the past. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) led as it were a parallel life to that of Charles Darwin. He is mostly remembered for his pithy formula of the “struggle for life”, inserted by Darwin into the title of his Origin. Spencer was nonetheless a great synthetic thinker who, all by himself, tried to give thought to what... from a former era – except when one translates them into a present context. (For, as Vacher de Lapouge asked, how can the world change if humanity does not?) In his Principles of Sociology, Herbert Spencer wrote: “We have to recognize that the struggle for life among the societies has been the instrument of their evolution. … The basis of social cooperation is the combined effort for attack and defense;... of this is that Alfred Wallace, basing himself on the same ideas, reached the same conclusions. But also swimming in the same intellectual waters were Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Chambers, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, and many others now less well remembered. The father of eugenics is generally considered to have been Francis Galton (1822-1911), a relative of Charles Darwin. He published a ...
... Media, Interview of Ms. Tippett with Dr. Newland, 2007. 10 Vide., Moore, F.C.T, Bergson: Thinking Backwards, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. " Vide., Peel, J.D.Y, Herbert Spencer, The Evolution of a Sociologist, Heinemann, London, 1971. 12 Vide., Alexander, S., Space, Time and Deity, Macmillan, London, Paperback edition, 1966. 13 Vide., Teilhard de Chardin ...
... to England to breathe the atmosphere of a free country where he could speak as well as think as he chose. He was then a strong constitutionalist and his chief intellectual preoccupations were Herbert Spencer, Home Rule and the position of the Native States. When the new movement flooded India it carried Mr. Krishnavarma forward with it. He became an ardent Nationalist, a confirmed passive resister ...
... direction. The striving of the organism is the creative effort to which evolution is due. Page 49 The biological theory of evolution assumes that life always came from life. Herbert Spencer questioned this assumption and attempted to give a philosophical account of the rise of the living from the non-living, the mental from the non-mental. According to him, the differences between ...
... Flute (p. 93), under the title "The Agressor": "Onward, onward, all to the front With vibrant songs of victory...." This can be sung in the same tune as Bengali. Edmund Spencer (1552-1599): English poet. The Faerie Queene is his major contribution to English Poetry. It is a long dense allegory in the epic form of Christian virtues, tied into England's mythology of King... Adwaita Vedanta under his guidance. He was astonished to see that Sri Ramakrishna attained 'Nirvikalpa' Samadhi in three days only while he could not get it in forty years of sadhana. After Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), first Earl of Oxford and Asquith. British Liberal Statesman and Prime Minister (1908-1916). Syamaprasad Mukherjee (6.7.1901-23.6.1953), was an illustrious son of... between S/iuk and Sārī (a parrot couple). The three sisters were overwhelmed, excited, talkative, etc., in great joy while eating the puffed rice (murij + mustard oil. Jean Herbert (1897-1980)—a Swiss national working in the League of Nations. He was translating Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine into French with a team of translators. My heart is far from overflowing ...
... Darwin against gradualism. Lyell and Gray stuck to their opinion that variations (the “minor individual differences”) were directed by providential influence rather than by ‘scientific’ chance. And Herbert Spencer “eagerly devoured Lamarck’s evolutionary theories and, interestingly enough, he never really wavered from them, remaining unconvinced by Darwin.” 30 Even Ernst Haeckel, the German scientist... Its chief law will be “the law of the fittest”, and the result must be bellum omnium versus omnes, a war of all against all. This interpretation of the human social relations, initially by Herbert Spencer, became known as ‘social biology’; it would be the norm in the capitalist society as well as in international politics. If the fittest are the ones that survive, gain the upper hand and grow into... met with difficult times in the course of its career and was around 1900 even declared death. But through gradual changes, additions and reinterpretations ‘Darwinism’ was “invented by the likes of Spencer, Haeckel, Galton, Weismann, de Vries. They were intentionally promoting Darwin, making evolution not only the central question in biology, but also of society, morals, religion, politics, etc. In short ...
... to a Brahmin of the old times this would have been a proof of a capacity neither unusual nor astonishing, but rather, petty and limited. The many-sidedness of an Eratosthenes or the range of a Herbert Spencer have created in Europe admiring or astonished comment; but the universality of the ordinary curriculum in ancient India was for every student and not for the exceptional few, and it implied, not ...
... up to the very publication of the Origin , and never accepted Darwin’s gradualism. Asa Gray agreed with Darwin only within a framework which held that all species had been created over time. Herbert Spencer, propagandist of Darwinism, remained a Lamarckist at heart. And of Ernst Haeckel, “the German Darwin” and “universal promoter of Darwinism,” Larson writes: “Haeckel saw evolution proceeding through... interested in the problem of evolution, which was then the topic among the intelligentsia thanks to Darwin’s Origin and the propaganda by his proponents in Britain (the X Club, Francis Galton and Herbert Spencer), France (Clémence Royer) and Germany (Ernst Haeckel). The Germany of those years was the most advanced industrial nation in the world, hard-working and of a dutiful accuracy in all its undertakings ...
... species in a definite direction. The striving of the organism is the creative effort to which evolution is due. The biological theory of evolution assumes that life always came from life. Herbert Spencer questioned this assumption and attempted to give a philosophical account of the rise of the living from the non-living, the mental from the non-mental. According to him, the differences between ...
... years of age, was widely reported in the press. The New York Times called him “the last of the giants belonging to that wonderful group of intellectuals that included, among others, Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, Lyell and Owen, whose daring investigations revolutionized and evolutionized the thought of the century.” “Despite this, his fame faded quickly after his death. For a long time he was treated as... unimaginable challenges.” 6 Eventually Bates would continue on his way up the Amazon, while Wallace chose to branch off on the Rio Negro, a majestic river in its own right. Later Alfred’s brother Herbert joined him, but did not prove strong enough to stand the ordeals of the tough and dangerous explorer’s life. He caught yellow fever and died in a Brazilian harbour town, about to board a ship to his ...
... poetry from Rudyard Kipling, his history from records of oppression: Shakespeare and Milton did not illumine his imagination when he peered into the future of India. Mill, Carlyle or Herbert Spencer did not shed any light on his reasoning when he applied himself to the study of the problems in India. Hume, Froude, Kingsley or Freeman did not help him at all in taking a correct reading ...
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