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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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Derby
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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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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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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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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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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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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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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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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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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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear so surely must man become perfect.
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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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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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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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