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This survival of the fittest ...

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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If men use their liberty in s...

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

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Feudalism, serfdom, slavery —...

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

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Religion has been compelled b...

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

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Ethical ideas and sentiments ...

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 evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.

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Truth generally lies in the c...

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

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Education has for its object ...

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

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The saying that beauty is but...

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

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There is a principle which is...

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 most important attribute ...

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

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The freest form of government...

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

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All socialism involves slaver...

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

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The essential trait in the mo...

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

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The more numerous public inst...

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

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Rightness expresses of action...

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

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Life is not for learning nor ...

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

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The forces which are working ...

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

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Music must take rank as the h...

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

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It is a mistake to assume tha...

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

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So long as selfishness makes ...

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

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