A correspondent writes:
Saints be praised!
Herbert Spencer has received a surprisingly positive and balanced assessment in a ‘popular’ source.
2012 must be the end of time!
The article is actually fairly positive (albeit superficial) about Spencer’s ideas, but makes Spencer the person sound a bit of a jerk. But that’s fair, because he was.
Are you referring to his views on poor people or some specific event where he acted like a jerk?
The hat thing was what I had in mind.
Lolwut?
I’m not familiar with this tale….
Neither was I, before I read the linked article.
Perhaps I’m a bit of a jerk as well, I thought the hat thing was pretty funny.