After leaving school at t
After leaving school at the age of 16, he went to work as a railroad engineer, but quit that job in 1848 to become a sub-editor of The Economist. The probable model for Austin Feverel in Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and for Mr. Casaubon in Middlemarch, his 1852 essay on the "Development Hypothesis" preceded Darwin in proposing a general theory of evolution, though it lacked a concept of natural selection. FTP, name this English thinker, the author of First Principles, Social Statics, and The Principles of Psychology whose "synthetic philosophy" included social Darwinism.
After leaving school at the age of 16, he went to work as a railroad engineer, but quit that job in 1848 to become a sub-editor of The Economist.
Herbert {Spencer}