Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress. - Talcott Parsons

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Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Talcott Parsons

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

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