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Spencerianism
noun Spen·ce·ri·an·ism \spen-ˈsir-ē-ə-ˌni-zəm\
Definition of SPENCERIANISM
: the synthetic philosophy of Herbert Spencer that has as its central idea the mechanistic evolution of the cosmos from relative simplicity to relative complexity
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First Known Use of SPENCERIANISM
1881
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