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is typically, though quite wrongly, considered a coarse social Darwinist. After all, Spencer, and not Darwin, coined the infamous expression “survival of the fittest”, leading G. E. Moore to conclude erroneously in Principia Ethica (1903) that Spencer mitted the naturalistic fallacy. According to Moore, Spencer39。s practical reasoning was deeply flawed insofar as he purportedly conflated mere survivability (a natural property) with goodness itself (a nonnatural property). Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. The Principles of Ethics, Part IV, ch. 6 Works by Spencer The Proper Sphere of Gov