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Philosophical Haiku

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

by Terence Green

Nature seeks balance.
Evolving a moral sense,
The world becomes good.

Much ridiculed following his death, Herbert Spencer was for a time the leading prophet of evolution and progress of the Victorian Age. Indeed, he coined the term ‘Survival of the fittest’.

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