"A function to each organ, and each organ……" — Herbert Spencer

"A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization."

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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

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