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" "Throughout all organic nature there is at work a modifying influence of the kind... as the cause, these specific differences: an influence which, though slow in its action, does, in time, if the circumstances demand it, produce marked changes—an influence, which to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition which geological records imply, any amount of change.
Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. He developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He is known for coining the phrase "survival of the fittest".
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Merced a la creciente influencia de los liberales, se derogaron las leyes que prohibían las asociaciones entre artesanos, así como las que entorpecían su libertad de viajar. Hubo otra medida, de inspiración liberal, por la que se permitió a los disidentes profesar sus creencias sin sufrIr determinadas penas civiles; e igualmente otra disposición, dictada por los conservadores debido a la presión liberal, que capacitó a los católicos para profesar su religión sin menoscabo de su libertad. El área de la libertad se extendió por Actas que prohibían la trata de negros y su mantenimiento en esclavitud. Se abolió el monopolio de la compañía de las Indias Orientales y se abrió para todos el comercio con Oriente.
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