Spencer Herbert

  • Birth

    Derby, Derbyshire, England
  • Period: to

    Railway Civil Engineer

  • Published letters

    Marked the beginning of his engagement with political and social philosophy
  • Sub-editor of the economist

    exposed him to a wider arrange of political and social debates
  • Social Statistics

    His book describing his own philosophy and described the scope of the government
  • Principles of psychology

    Marked his move into psychology and the mind. He wanted to apply new evolutionary theories to modern psychology
  • First principles

    Beginning of his grand project of work for the unification of sciences
  • Survival of the fittest

    He coined the term survival of the fittest
  • Man versus the state

    Work against the state overreach, advocating for minimal government
  • Died

    At the age of 83