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Spencerian evolution was for individual rights and against government interference.
Furthermore, Spencerian evolution held that those unfit to sustain themselves must be allowed to perish.
Spencer believed that just as there were many varieties of beetles, respectively modified to existence in a particular place in nature, so too had human society “ spontaneously fallen into division of labour ”.
Individuals who survived to this, the latest and highest stage of evolutionary progress would be “ those in whom the power of self-preservation is the greatest — are the select of their generation .” Moreover, Spencer perceived governmental authority as borrowed from the people to perform the transitory aims of establishing social cohesion, insurance of rights, and security.
Spencerian ‘ survival of the fittest ’ firmly credits any provisions made to assist the weak, unskilled, poor and distressed to be an imprudent disservice to evolution.
Spencer insisted people should resist for the benefit of collective humanity as these severe fate singles out the weak, debauched, and disabled.

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