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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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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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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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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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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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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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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 universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also only of a less intense kind.
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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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