Huxley bites Spencer

    "The unlucky substitution of 'survival of fittest' for 'natural selection' has done much harm in consequence of the ambiguity of "'fittest' – which many take to mean 'best"' or 'highest' .... I absolutely disbelieve in use-inheritance as the evidence stands. [Herbert] Spencer is bound to it a priori – his psychology goes to pieces without it." [Huxley to Mr. William Platt Ball, 27 October 1890]


THH bites HS


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