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Spencer regarded this book, published in 1879, as the culmination of his life's study of human behaviour, social evolution and morality. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), Victorian philosopher, biologist, sociologist and political theorist, one of the founders of Social Darwinism and author of the phrase 'survival of the fittest', was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902, losing out to Theodor Mommsen.
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