When I first started to read philosophy and history I heard about this demon. His name was Herbert Spencer, and he was famous for three things:
- Incomprehensible prose
- Coining “Survival of the Fittest”, and
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Coming up with a “devil take the hindmost” laissez faire political philosophy that was called “social Darwinism”.
I have since learned that demons are figments of the imagination, and so it is here, as well.
