1. Ernest Gellner
As Herbert Spencer's theory leans on the survival of the fittest it states, "As generations pass, a society's most capable and intelligent members ("the fittest") survive, while the less capable die off.... "(Henslin, 2013) For example, my summer employment was at a Naval Base Shipyard and the requirement for this job was that you stand in the hot sun 7 days a week for 10 hour days, and did not allow for many breaks or off time. ...