When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty. Herbert Spencer More Quotes by Herbert Spencer More Quotes From Herbert Spencer No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres. Herbert Spencer organization law science We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together. Herbert Spencer together order believe There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams. Herbert Spencer afterlife dream ideas It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct. Herbert Spencer parenting inspiration children Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed. Herbert Spencer sacrifice revenge men Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Herbert Spencer divine-right kings mean Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. Herbert Spencer barbarism militarism civilization Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others. Herbert Spencer disease lust men 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. Herbert Spencer government mistake civilization We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. Herbert Spencer soul evil forget If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die. Herbert Spencer wells dies should Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge. Herbert Spencer manifestation recognition all-things Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world. Herbert Spencer trying children world So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented. Herbert Spencer government men long A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. Herbert Spencer moments change life Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. Herbert Spencer our-lives ignorance If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race. Herbert Spencer cells men science The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. Herbert Spencer gains opinion numbers Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution. Herbert Spencer ethics existence solutions We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest. Herbert Spencer evolve evolution made
