Carnegie claimed to be a champion of evolutionary thought particularly the work of Herbert Spencer, even declaring Spencer his teacher.

It has been claimed, though apparently without evidence, that Herbert Spencer, the originator of the term " survival of the fittest ", invented the paper clip.

Spencer claimed in his autobiography to have invented a " binding-pin " that was distributed by Ackermann & Company, and he shows a drawing of the pin in his Appendix I ( following Appendix H ).

This noble family descended in the male line from Henry Spencer, claimed to be a descendant of the cadet branch of the ancient House Le Despencer ( died c. 1478 ), male-line ancestor of the Earls of Sunderland, the later Dukes of Marlborough, and the Earls Spencer.

Based on documentation that corresponds with the account of C. C. Spencer, who claimed in the 1920s to have witnessed the contest, Garst speculates that John Henry may have been a man named Henry who was born a slave to P. A. L.

It claimed that Spencer had used evolution to justify economic and social inequality, and to support a political stance of extreme conservatism, which led, amongst other things, to the eugenics movement.

In 2006 it came fourth in the same league ; the programme claimed that it placed lower due to " a slight dip in exam results ", though presenter Phil Spencer noted that it was his personal favourite.

The pornographic publisher John Camden Hotten claimed that his series of flagellation reprints The Library Illustrative of Social Progress had been taken from Buckle's collection, but this was untrue, as reported by Henry Spencer Ashbee.

Marks & Spencer have built ( September 2012 ) what is being claimed to be their largest store apart from Marble Arch on a site opposite to the Coliseum shopping park.

In April 2009, U. S. Representative Spencer Bachus claimed that 17 of his Congressional colleagues were socialists, but would only name one, Bernie Sanders, who has been openly describing himself as a democratic socialist for years.

Bellingham is variously described as a direct descendant of John Bellingham, Spencer Perceval's assassin, or as a being from the same family, and his defeat in the 1997 election could be attributed to the intervention of the Referendum Party candidate, Roger Percival, who claimed to be a descendant of the slain Prime Minister.

Thomas Spencer Baynes claimed in 1856 that, due to its position at the heart of the Kingdom of Wessex, the relics of Anglo-Saxon accent, idiom and vocabulary were best preserved in the Somerset dialect.

In 1894, Frederick Spencer Oliver published A Dweller on Two Planets, which claimed that survivors from a sunken continent called Lemuria were living in or on Mount Shasta in northern California.

Spencer beat India's Arvind Savur 6 – 1, Patsy Fagan 6 – 4, Graham Miles 6 – 5 and Cliff Thorburn 6 – 3 to take the £ 2000 first prize and another £ 200 for the highest break ( 108 ) and also claimed the ' Man of the Series ' award.

In addition, SBVT claimed that the after action report for the incident was sent from the Coast Guard cutter where Kerry had received medical treatment, the USCGC Spencer.

Although Spencer and Marx disagreed about many things they were similar in that their systems were static: they both claimed to have divined the immutable stages of development that a society went through and they both taught that mankind was essentially helpless before the force of evolution.

Milian claimed that she had to spend more than $ 300, 000 defending herself in the case, which she settled in 2006, and wanted $ 300, 000 plus damages from Paul and his associate, Spencer Cowlings Entertainment.

Also interviewed was Spencer Campbell, who claimed to have developed the concept of a " diary room ", in which reality television participants talk privately to a camera.

In a live performance with his new band Rocktopus ( now As Fast As ) on WAAF-FM, former Rustic keyboard player Spencer Albee claimed that he had been smoking David Bowie's custom-made ultra-ultra-light cigarettes, which Bowie had evidently given him during the time when they were recording Viva Nueva !.

Recently Spencer fought her father, a minor league supervillain who erroneously claimed to be the son of Al Pratt-the Golden Age Atom.

Leading up to the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Rich Joe, and his family were caught in the midst of the struggle between two opposing claims for the house. Colonel William Bishop and the infamous Georgia Guard tried to take over the house on the grounds of hiring a white man without a permit .. A man, Spencer Riley, who claimed to have won the house in the Land Lottery of 1832, known as the Sixth Georgia Land Lottery, made a claim for the house at the same time.

He was a notorious womaniser, and Barbara Cartland claimed that he was possibly the father of her daughter Raine Spencer, Princess Diana's stepmother, although she also thought Prince George was a contender.

In the introduction he gave full credit to Spencer, writing " I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.

Herbert Spencer, Jowett, and Leslie Ellis understood, I feel sure ; and a few others, but nearly all the logicians and mathematicians ignored the statement that the book was meant to throw light on the nature of the human mind ; and treated the formula entirely as a wonderful new method of reducing to logical order masses of evidence about external fact.

Shatner changed his mind when producer Harve Bennett convinced Shatner that he could age gracefully like Spencer Tracy.

Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies.

Through this paradigm, Spencer aimed to reconcile the associationist psychology of Mill's Logic, the notion that human mind was constructed from atomic sensations held together by the laws of the association of ideas, with the apparently more ' scientific ' theory of phrenology, which located specific mental functions in specific parts of the brain.

As William James remarked, Spencer " enlarged the imagination, and set free the speculative mind of countless doctors, engineers, and lawyers, of many physicists and chemists, and of thoughtful laymen generally.

Sturges had written the original story, " The Story of a Man ", in 1933 with Spencer Tracy in mind.

During the evening, Spencer became convinced that this change of direction was the best course for him to take, and by the time Fleetwood Mac found him, his mind was made up.

In James ' day, the salient effort to give a thoroughly materialistic account of mind was that of Herbert Spencer.

Indeed, in modern biology, the term fitness mostly refers to reproductive success, and is not explicit about the specific ways in which organisms can be " fit " as in " having phenotypic characteristics which enhance survival and reproduction " ( which was the meaning that Spencer had in mind ).

Pharaoh is, in a sense, an extended study of the metaphor of society-as-organism that Prus had adopted from English philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer, and that Prus makes explicit in the introduction to the novel: " the Egyptian nation in its times of greatness formed, as it were, a single person, in which the priesthood was the mind, the pharaoh was the will, the people the body, and obedience the cement.

While Spencer believed that competition and ' survival of the fittest " benefited human society and socio-cultural evolution, Ward considered competition to be a destructive force, pointing out that all human institutions, traditions and laws were tools invented by the mind of man and, like all tools, were designed to " meet and checkmate " the unrestrained competition of natural forces.

Philip Spencer had cold-bloodedly planned the murder of his captain, yet it seemed in order to chide him for a lapse of proper address.

And it was clear that Adrien was not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no step toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to obey.

No action of his could be interpreted in his favor and four midshipmen, prior to their knowing the significance of the Greek paper, had seen it in Cromwell's hands while Spencer whispered explanations.

`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.

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 ”.

Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.

Although the project had an excellent pedigree with stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, the film was not a success, and Capra's eyebrow-raising statement, " I think State of the Union was my most perfect film in handling people and ideas " has few adherents today.

The decision to place Harry in Eton went against the family tradition of sending royal children to Gordonstoun ( Harry's grandfather, father, two uncles, and two cousins all attended ); it did, however, make the Prince follow in the Spencer family footsteps, as both Diana's father and brother had attended Eton.

Cagney played Martin " Moe the Gimp " Snyder, a lame Jewish-American gangster from Chicago, a part Spencer Tracy had turned down.

Cagney worked with MGM on the Western film Tribute to a Bad Man, a role that had originally been written for Spencer Tracy.

Dr Login received a knighthood in 1854 from Queen Victoria and was known as Sir John Spencer Login ( he had added the ' r ' to his middle name to change it from Spence to Spencer ).

He had a substantially more important part as Hector, the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ) with Spencer Tracy.

And when it transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London, Charles Spencer reviewing for the Daily Telegraph pronounced it the best Macbeth he had ever seen.

The Irish government refused to attend royal functions as a result ; for example, Patrick Hillery declined on Government advice to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, to which he had been invited by Queen Elizabeth, just as Seán T. O ' Kelly had declined on government advice to attend the 1953 Coronation Garden Party at the British Embassy in Dublin.

The main characters were played by Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who had already cooperated as hero pair in the " old style " Spaghetti Westerns God Forgives ...

The fifth edition, published on 10 February 1869, incorporated more changes and for the first time included the phrase " survival of the fittest ", which had been coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology ( 1864 ).

Herbert Spencer had already incorporated Lamarckism into his popular philosophy of progressive free market human society.

Historians write that most such political and economic commentators had only a superficial understanding of Darwin's scientific theory, and were as strongly influenced by other concepts about social progress and evolution, such as the Lamarckian ideas of Spencer and Haeckel, as they were by Darwin's work.

In Martin v. Hunter's Lessee ( 1816 ), the Supreme Court confronted the Chief Justice of Virginia, Spencer Roane, who had previously declared a Supreme Court decision unconstitutional and refused to permit the state courts to abide by it.

Narendra became fascinated with the evolutionism of Herbert Spencer and had correspondence with him ; he translated Spencer's book Education ( 1861 ) into Bengali.

An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella of the same name, Hemingway's agent, Leland Hayward, had previously written to the author: " Of all Hollywood people, the one that comes the closest to me in quality, in personality and voice, in personal dignity and ability, is Spencer Tracy.

Some scholars ( e. g. Tillett and Spencer, 2000 ) have offered evidence that Gilbert and Sullivan had planned all along to re-use " Climbing over rocky mountain ," and perhaps other parts of Thespis, noting that the presence of the unpublished Thespis score in New York, when there were no plans to revive it, might not have been accidental.

Later that year, Spencer left his wife for a period of four months, but in the spring of 1921 they were reunited in Washington, D. C., where Spencer had been posted.