Main contents
1. Spencer and his Circle
Greta Jones
2. The Relation of Spencer’s Evolutionary
Theory to Darwin’s
Robert J. Richards
3. The Diffusion of Spencerism and its
Political Interpretations in France and Italy
Naomi Beck
4. Herbert Spencer’s Influence on Economics
John Laurent
5. Herbert Spencer and Altruism: The Sternness
and Kindness of a Victorian Moralist
Thomas Dixon
6. Galton Lecture 2003: Spencer In History:
The Second Century
J.D.Y. Peel