More from Herbert Spencer

  1. Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
  2. The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under.
  3. The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expressi…
  4. Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
  5. Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partl…
  6. Music must take rank as he highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
  7. We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this…
  8. We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneou…

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