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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
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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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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
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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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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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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.
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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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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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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 question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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