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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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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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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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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
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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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Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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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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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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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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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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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
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