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Herbert Spencer

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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.


— Herbert Spencer


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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.


— Herbert Spencer


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


— Herbert Spencer


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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.


— Herbert Spencer


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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.


— Herbert Spencer


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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.


— Herbert Spencer


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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.


— Herbert Spencer


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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.


— Herbert Spencer


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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.


— Herbert Spencer


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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.


— 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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