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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
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All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
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We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.
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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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