I was reading an essay of Saleeby's the other day, and the best Saleeby could say was that Herbert Spencer NEARLY succeeded in answering Berkeley.

那天我读了撤里比的一篇论文，撒里比所能说出的最好的话不过是：赫伯特·斯宾塞几乎回答了贝克莱的问题。

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Herbert Spencer, in the decade after Darwin, summarised natural selection as "survival of the fittest" - a slogan -darwin only later adopted.

十年之后，赫伯特·斯宾塞将达尔文的自然选择概括为“适者生存”——达尔文只是后来采用了这个口号。

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"Here's fresh meat for your axe, Kreis," he said; "a rose-white youth with the ardor of a lover for Herbert Spencer."

“克瑞斯，你那板斧有了新对象了，”他说，“一个纯洁得像白玫瑰的青年，对斯宾塞怀着恋人一样的热情。”

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The British philosopher Herbert Spencer described this struggle as "survival of the fittest."

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But for every nearly forgotten Herbert Spencer who tried to rebuild a free-market public consensus on survival of the fittest, there were more Marxes, Engels, Shaws and Keynes who were more gifted propagandists and more ambitious candidates for the newly vacated office of god-man.

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