Spencer's ideas laid the groundwork for social Darwinism, but scholars say there was much more to the Victorian Age thinker than that

Wikipedia article about Herbert Spencer

Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory, the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited while the strong grew in power and cultural influence.

Of all the writers that Carnegie read and studied throughout his life, he said that the English philosopher Herbert Spencer was the one who influenced him most.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prolific writer whose views on education are often quoted. Here's our collection of Spencer quotes.