Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.Herbert Spencer
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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Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.
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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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This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.'
Herbert Spencer
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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