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Quotations By Herbert Spencer


Evolution
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Evolution
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."

Folly
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.