At first, the article provides with a thorough portrayal of Spencer’s Theory of Evolution. Herbert Spencer by Miss A. Reverend Thomas Spencer, Herbert Spencer’s uncle, then completed Spencer’s limited formal education by teaching him some mathematics and physics, and enough Latin to enable him to translate some easy texts. Lenski (1970, [Click on thumbnail for larger picture. Grant. A Victorian biologist and philosopher, Herbert Spencer was born April 27th, 1820, at the height of British industrialism. This was seven years before Darwin’s Origin of Species appeared. Spencer’s two main points were: He was one of the principal proponents of evolutionary theory in the mid nineteenth century, and his reputation at … Spencer’s theory of evolution.

He was educated at home in mathematics, natural science, history and English, among some other languages. This article focuses on Herbert Spencer’s theory of evolution of society. Spencer published his ideas on the theory of evolution in a 2,100-word essay titled The Development Hypothesis 12 in The Leader 13 of March 20, 1852. Spencer's theory of social evolution bore no true analogy to theories of biological evolution: the latter was concerned with the "problem of differences" speciation-while the former saw all societies as of one form (species), differing only in their stages of "maturity." Herbert Spencer (1820—1903) British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. Herbert Spencer was educated partly by his father and partly by members of the Derby Philosophical Society who introduced him to pre-Darwinian concepts of biological evolution.