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Spen·cer·ism
(spěn'sə-rĭz'əm)
n. The system of thought developed by Herbert Spencer, setting forth the idea that evolution is the passage from the simple, indefinite, and incoherent to the complex, definite, and coherent.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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