Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity. . . due … - Herbert Spencer

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. . . people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Herbert Spencer

Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity. . . due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

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The law is the survival of the fittest. . . . The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

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