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Here's Darwin and Spencer, just chattin'.
Spencer's survival of the fittest expanded to social Darwinism, the competition between people, not just species.
He was massively influential, selling hundreds of thousands of copies of his books and inspiring authors, like H.G. Wells's divergent races in "The Time Machine."
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A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early 19th century.
“In order to support and illustrate this assertion, I shall commence my remarks with the spencer, which has often been attacked by satyrical and cynical writers as an absurd and original dress.”