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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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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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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
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Lusts are like agues the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
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