Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology (London and Edinburgh, 1864).
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Cited byW.K. Clifford to The Pall Mall Gazette - 24 June 1868, in W.K. Clifford, (L. Stephen and F. Pollock, eds.) Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S. (London and New York, 1886), pp. 72-73.
Description:'Sir - I ask for a portion of your space to say something about a lecture, 'On some of the Conditions of Mental Development,' which I delivered at the Royal Institution in March last...
In the short account of the evolution-hypothesis which I prefixed, I followed Mr. Herbert Spencers Principles of Biology, not knowing, at the time, how much of the theory was due to him personally, but imagining that the greater part of it was the work of previous biologists. On this account I omitted to make such references to my special sources of information as I should otherwise have made.' (72)
