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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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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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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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