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What does Spencerian mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to Platt Rogers Spencer, US business school activist, or the style of handwriting he developed.
  2. Of or relating to Herbert Spencer, British social and political theorist, or his ideas on social Darwinism.
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Spencerian evolution is an assertion of the all-sufficiency of natural law.
I have been told that a man who writes pure Spencerian can never do anything else.
Any line of his writing was as neatly molded as Spencerian copy.
We had thus two epochs in our school, the Ciceronian and the Spencerian periods.
Mr. Allen calls this the Spencerian view, and so it is in so far as that Mr. Spencer has adopted it.
As a philosopher, however, Nietzsche does not stand or fall by his objections to the Darwinian or Spencerian cosmogony.

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