Reading this weekend and he came up. Is this lad out of fashion because he was so dominant in his own time and has become boring, or because he was mid?My politics are incredibly inflexible so there's no chance of me adopting his views, but is he worth reading out of historical curiosity?
>>24849743He's a very good example of those optimistic liberal early sociology positivists from the mid-19th century like Comte and Mill who wax Romantic, but he dares to have some metaphysical and teleological thoughts that make him closer to the German Idealists than either Comte or Mill ever were.
>>24849743He's the fool that gave us the misconception of evolution by saying "survival of the fittest"
