Social Darwinism: Herbert Spencer and The Catholic Church Essay

Herbert Spencer was the most important Social Darwinist of the 19th Century. He was the offset printing to begin thinking about evolutionist long before Darwin came out with his adjudge on the Origins of Species. He had many theories such as that everything evolves from peerless staple creature and then breaks off into more diverse species (Haberman (Hab.), 171). His theory was that social, political, and keen movements were caused by the development from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous. Spencer once stated, If the advance of man towards greater heterogeneity is traceable to the production of many effects by one cause, still more clearly may the advance of society towards greater heterogeneity be so explained (Haberman 2 (Hab2)) Spencer believed that governments should not try to salmagundi social environment, for it would hamper with processes of nature and individual liberty (Hab). He had a theory that evil would disappear if every man may subscribe to the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties(Hab). Although this would onl...