Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencerwas an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 April 1820
gentlemen lady nose
of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
darwin express mechanical races sought struggle survival
The 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 favored races in the struggle for life.
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Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon
courage risk bold-actions
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
mistake mean men
People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.
survival evolution multiplication
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
knowledge men order
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
health exercise atheism
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
marriage wise passion
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.
desire coercion slavery
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
sex men differences
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
music art spirit
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
progress accidents
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
causes ethics produce
Every cause produces more than one effect.