Spencer observed the same Industrial Revolution as Karl Marx and yet both saw a completely different society taking form. What best describes Spencer's worldview?
A) Spencer saw industrial societies bringing more freedom and greater reverence for the individual as well as equality-indeed, a world unlike the one Marx saw.
B) Spencer saw humankind learning to adaptive to their alienation and to even rationalize it as positive.
C) Marx saw capitalism as dying much the way an unfit species becomes extinct. Spencer was a social Darwinist who saw capitalism as a fit institution, however.
D) Spencer saw the proletariat as species evolving in step with capitalism and industrial progress.
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