{System-building}[20th December 1990]

[Redbook8:130][19901220:1735]{System-building}[20th December 1990]

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‘When T.H. Huxley said that [Herbert] Spencer’s idea of a tragedy was “a deduction killed by a fact”, he called attention to the system-building feature of Spencer’s work that led him to look for what confirmed his theories and to ignore or to reinterpret what conflicted with them.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 11:83, ‘Spencer, Herbert’, p84.

(my emphasis [in which the double underlining [of 'or to reinterpret'] in the ts represents triple underlining in the ms])

[See [Redbook8:5][19901003:1620e]{Social Evolution [continued]}[3rd October 1990]]

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