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... The idea of progress became a dominant idea in European thought in the nineteenth century. Herbert Spencer, a prominent philosopher in the nineteenth century and the founder of social-Darwinism, certainly had his saying on the topic of progress. However, in his work ˇ°Progress: its law and causeˇ±, the obvious illogicality and contradiction in his theory and the lack of empirical evidence and observation had made it far from convincing. Among all the controversies, I found the biological inaccuracy in his theory and his over-generalization of the theory most disturbing. ... Spencer constructed his whole theory on the basis of ˇ°organic progressˇ±. Ironically, his conception of organic evolution and progress was doubtful in the first place. ... ˇ±{pg 1} Child grows up into man, but it is rather inappropriate to consider this growth, physically or intellectually, as progress and evolution since it lasts for only a few decades.
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