Bøger af Two

Once in several generations, somewhere in the world, comes a charismatic personality who has a profound effect on people's thinking. The subject of this short biographical sketch is not one of them. His life was ended before his mission had barely begun, and he died in exile and obscurity. From a few random jottings in a tattered old notebook, the editor has pieced together fragments of the life of Citizen Number One, founder of the Citizens' Revolutionary Action Party who, as a result of his pursuits, became the target for both the British intelligence services and the criminal underworld. Fleeing England to what he believed was relative safety in France, he arrived in South America, where he continued his revolutionary activities until an appointment with a firing squad brought his short, but adventurous, career to an end. The publication of this brief biographical account is intended primarily to encourage others to come forward who have further information relating to 'One' and his revolutionary movement, and perhaps even inspire an 'abler hand' to write a fuller account of the man and his mission.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This early work by Two was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it. 'Home Life with Herbert Spencer' is a biography of of this famous philosopher and proponent of evolution. Herbert Spencer was born on 27th April 1820, in Derby, England. In 1851 he published 'Social Statics' to great acclaim and his quietly influential 'Principles of Psychology' in 1955. These were followed by numerous works of sociology, psychology, and philosophy, which led him to become a prominent intellectual of his day. He also wrote 'The Developmental Hypothesis' (1852) which described the theory of evolution seven years before Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species'. He even popularised the term "Evolution" and coined the phrase "Survival of the fittest", but his works did not contain the comprehensive theoretical system that Darwin's did, which is why his theory was not taken seriously at the time. Spencer's most famous idea was that of "Social Darwinism." He saw the process of organic evolution as being analogous to that of society, an idea influenced many intellectuals of the day.