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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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