First Principles

 I’m currently narrating Herbert Spencer’s best-known work for Ukemi and WFHowes. His doctrine of Social Darwinism  (he was contemporary with Darwin) alleged that principles including natural selection within evolution apply to human societies, social classes, and individuals as well as to biological species developing over time. He is also remembered for coining the term “survival of the fittest”, which I previously thought was Darwin’s own.  He walks a very tight path between science and religion, keen not to insult the principles of either, and to reconcile them wherever possible.

I’m learning a lot.