Herbert Spencer was the propounder of Social Darwinism, were he proposed that just like nature does natural selection, society also evolves through the Survival of fittest. Charles Darwin has a strong influence on Spencer's theory of Social Darwinism, as he sees Natural selection similar to the Survival of Fittest.
Herbert Spencer, under the influence of Darwin, believed in the notion of “the survival of the fittest”. He like Darwin said that nature had the power to get rid of the weak and unfit. The fittest people are those who are healthy and more intelligent. For him, the state was a “joint-stock company for the mutual protection of individuals”. According to him, nature is more intelligent than human beings and therefore, the government should stop interfering in the process of this evolution. He asked the Government to prohibit such activities as, education, sanitary measures, improvement of harbours, etc. Thus, for Spencer the laissez faire i.e. free market type society (where there was no government intervention and individuals were free to compete with each other) was the apex of all societies.
Unlike Auguste Comte, Spencer had very different expectations from sociology. Auguste Comte wanted to guide men in the construction of a better society. Spencer, instead told people through sociology that human beings should not interfere with the natural processes in societies. Spencer had great faith in the innate instinct of freedom and believed any interference with this instinct to be harmful.
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