To characterize the tendency of smaller movements being subsumed into larger ones, this thinker coined the term "equilibration." He deployed an obsolete analogy stating that just as a well-intentioned doctor is free from prosecution if a patient dies under his care, so too should a legislator be free from moral blame if his measures result in evil, at the end of his chapter "The Sins of Legislators." A spat erupted among the faculty at Yale University when president Noah Porter forced William Graham Sumner to discontinue teaching one of this thinker's books. This thinker spent nearly forty years completing his multidisciplinary treatise titled System of (*) Synthetic Philosophy, whose section Principles of Biology contains his best-known contribution. This thinker 
To characterize the tendency of smaller movements being subsumed into larger ones, this thinker coined the term "equilibration." He deployed an obsolete analogy stating that just as a well-intentioned doctor is free from prosecution if a patient dies under his care, so too should a legislator be free from moral blame if his measures result in evil, at the end of his chapter "The Sins of Legislators." A spat erupted among the faculty at Yale University when president Noah Porter forced William Graham Sumner to discontinue teaching one of this thinker's books. This thinker spent nearly forty years completing his multidisciplinary treatise titled System of (*) Synthetic Philosophy, whose section Principles of Biology contains his best-known contribution. This thinker attacked the "New Toryism" of William Gladstone in his book Man Versus the State, and expounded upon the "right to ignore the state" in his best-known book, which states that laissez-faire capitalism is necessary to achieve human happiness. For 10 points, name this British thinker who wrote Social Statics and coined the term "survival of the fittest."
To characterize the tendency of smaller movements being subsumed into larger ones, this thinker coined the term "equilibration."
Herbert Spencer