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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/this-survival-of-the-fittest-which-i-have-here-sought-to-express-in/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/there-can-be-little-question-that-good-composition-is-far-less/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/thus-poetry-regarded-as-a-vehicle-of-thought-is-especially-impressive/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/without-painting-sculpture-music-poetry-and-the-emotions-produced-by/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [ And yet, strange to say, now that the truth \[of natural selection\] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/and-yet-strange-to-say-now-that-the-truth-of-natural-selection-is/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-men-were-wise-they-would-see-that-the-affection-that-god-has/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/and-yet-strange-to-say-now-that-this-truth-is-recognized-by-most/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/under-the-natural-course-of-things-each-citizen-tends-towards-his/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/what-then-do-they-want-a-government-for-not-to-regulate-commerce-not/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/it-is-a-mistake-to-assume-that-government-must-necessarily-last/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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## Other authors on Natural

## More by Herbert Spencer

> [During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/during-human-progress-every-science-is-evolved-out-of-its/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/no-physiologist-who-calmly-considers-the-question-in-connection-with/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/any-piece-of-knowledge-which-the-pupil-has-himself-acquired-any/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/conservatism-defends-those-coercive-arrangements-which-a-still/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/absolute-morality-is-the-regulation-of-conduct-in-such-a-way-that/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/when-a-man-s-knowledge-is-not-in-order-the-more-of-it-he-has-the/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/the-cruelty-of-a-fijian-god-who-represented-as-devouring-the-souls-of/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/the-liberty-the-citizen-enjoys-is-to-be-measured-not-by-governmental/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/i-had-a-great-dislike-to-the-annoyances-entailed-by-baggage-and-it/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/progress-therefore-is-not-an-accident-but-a-necessity-it-is-a-part-of/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/surely-in-much-talk-there-cannot-choose-but-be-much-vanity-loquacity/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/no-one-can-be-perfectly-free-till-all-are-free-no-one-can-be/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/only-when-genius-is-married-to-science-can-the-highest-results-be/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/it-cannot-but-happen-that-those-will-survive-whose-functions-happen/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

> [“Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/before-he-can-remake-his-society-his-society-must-make-him/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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