More from Herbert Spencer

  1. We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
  2. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understandi…
  3. Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
  4. Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is su…
  5. There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in ev…
  6. Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
  7. As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions prod…
  8. Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evo…

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