"There is the principle of Spencer, Master, I mean: 'That what can go wrong, WILL go wrong in Time'."
"I am familiar with it, praise be, what is in your Mind?"
Well, it is used in the book I have here but is given a name of some other body. Why is that? Why cannot they call it Spencer's Law?"
"Don't you know that pseudologists will not touch Spencer with a nine-foot pole? It is because, first of all, he excells in common sense which is not appreciated (goes for Wells' work too), but second, and more important is that he is no academic, not even a grammar school. So it came about that there was (and still is), silence when he argumented for a GENERAL law of evolution (Physics & Mind) in all structures, but when Darwin proposed a special case of it, two years later, valid for life, it was academically splashed all about. When you do not belong to the clod-, the cluster-, the group-, of scientists, you are a dumb, a nought, you know nothing and are even prevented from university entrance. Read Andreski again."