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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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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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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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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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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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