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English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

– Herbert Spencer

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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

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A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

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All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making

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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

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Science is organized knowledge.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.

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