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SPENCER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)
Synonyms:
Herbert Spencer; Spencer
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
sociologist (a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society)
Context examples:
Only Spencer and myself know how hard I hammered.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They were all of the same flesh, after all, sisters under their skins; and he might have known as much himself had he remembered his Spencer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In as few words as possible, he began, Spencer puts it something like this: First, a man must act for his own benefit—to do this is to be moral and good.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He went back to his room and to the volume of Spencer's "Sociology" lying open on the bed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Spencer I remembered enough to know that altruism was imperative to his ideal of highest conduct.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Martin's just discovered Spencer, and he's wild over him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“But you who read Spencer and Darwin and have never seen the inside of a school, how did you learn to read and write?” I queried.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Spencer couldn't take me anywhere, nor you.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
One evening, at dinner, when Mr. Butler was there, Martin turned the conversation upon Spencer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But he was now learning from Spencer that he never had known, and that he never could have known had he continued his sailing and wandering forever.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
