... changed, so instead of revolting he suggests that the lower classes should adopt a positive attitude toward them. "Since, then, the existence of the social movement is unquestionable on the one hand, and on the other, the succession of social states is never arbitrary, we cannot but regard this continuos phenomenon as subject to natural laws as positive as those that govern ... all phenomenon." (Comte, 16) Spencer's theory of social change also contains the influence of evolutionary thinking, as he saw society as an organism which evolved similar to the organisms of biology. " ... in th...

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