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Herbert Spencer

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


— Herbert Spencer


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Education has for its object the formation of character.


— Herbert Spencer


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Every cause produces more than one effect.


— Herbert Spencer


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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.


— Herbert Spencer


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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 the human spirit.


— Herbert Spencer


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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.


— Herbert Spencer


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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.


— Herbert Spencer


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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.


— Herbert Spencer


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Science is organized knowledge.


— Herbert Spencer


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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.


— Herbert Spencer


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The exception to Spencer's growing conservativism was that he remained throughout his life an ardent opponent of imperialism and militarism. Through this paradigm Spencer aimed to reconcile the associationist psychology of Mill's Logic the notion that human mind was constructed from atomic sensations held together by the laws of the association of ideas with the apparently more 'scientific' theory of phrenology which located specific mental functions in specific parts of the brain. At Spencer's funeral the Indian nationalist leader Shyamji Krishnavarma announced a donation of £1000 to establish a lectureship at Oxford University in tribute to Spencer and his work.

This term strongly suggests natural selection yet as Spencer extended evolution into realms of sociology and ethics he also made use of Lamarckism. " As a polymath he contributed to a wide range of subjects including ethics religion anthropology economics political theory philosophy biology sociology and psychology. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did.

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