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Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
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Herbert Spencer treated society as an organism whose parts each serve the whole, and argued it should be left to evolve unaided — the position later called Social Darwinism.
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He coined "survival of the fittest" and used it to oppose reform, on the grounds that intervention preserved the unfit.
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The organic analogy survives in functionalism; the political conclusion is rejected.