Herbert Spencer Quotes About Life
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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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This 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 favoured races in the struggle for life.
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