This accommodating feature of Mill's theories made them...

This accommodating feature of Mill's theories made them attractive to many and useful in practice: his utilitarianism instituted a critical and intelligent conformity to conventional morality for a blind one 4.12.2.7 Liberalism Mill fought intellectual battles for democracy and the rights of womenpointed out the "importance to man and society, of a large variety of types in character, and of giving full freedom to human nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting dimensions." 4.12.3 Herbert Spencer [1820-1903] Subscribed to a synthetic unity of knowledge whose evolution is a compromise between intuitionism [the a priori] and empiricism His major work is First Principles 1860 1862.

Spencer is sometimes regarded as the originator of Darwinism as the idea that Darwin's principles of evolution by natural selection is of universal application. Spencer published ideas on the evolution of the species before the publication of the works of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin on the same topic but his theory of evolution was originally Lamarckian.

He later accepted the theory of natural selection and in Principles of Biology, 1864, coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." His evolutionary philosophy was Lamarckian, passive, mechanistic and noninteractive. Absolute uniformities of experience generate absolute uniformities of thoughtexternal uniformities over generations lead over generations [by evolution] to fixed association of ideas and necessary forms of thought.