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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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Gerbert Spencer
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
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If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.
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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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