Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by… - Herbert Spencer

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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.

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About Herbert Spencer

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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Alternative Names: Spencert Gerbert Spencer
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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.

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further the survival of the unfittest.

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Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out of the old unadapted nature — the index of a character unfitted to its conditions — and only as fast as the unfitness diminishes can crime diminish.

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