Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Whereas Comte focused on the evolution of ideas; Spencer concentrated on the evolution of the social structure and its functions.
2. Spencer thought religion and science were one and the same, but eventually split as science sought out what could be known and religion explained what was unknowable.
3. Spencer did not see the process of evolution and devolution dialectically; if one was happening the other could not.
4. Spencer thought evolution (or sometimes devolution) was an inevitable, inescapable process.
5. Spencer largely ignores history in his future-focused theory of societal evolution.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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