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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
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Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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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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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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