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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
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We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also only of a less intense kind.
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