An Autobiography of Herbert Spencer Volume I

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism. He coined the phrase "survival of the fittest."

Volume I of II is published as it was left by Mr. Spencer, with only a few modifications being made by his trustees with respect to the break in the two volumes. Volume I ends with the termination of his miscellaneous work, and the second volume begins with the planning of the Synthetic Philosophy.