An Autobiography.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A most handsome copy of the philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer’s Autobiography in which he “fully acknowledged the intellectual pre-eminence of Darwin, and blamed himself for the combination of idées fixes and failure to look at the evidence that had debarred him from cottoning on to the hypothesis of ‘natural selection’ forty years before” (ODNB).

• Year: 1904

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