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“ When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. ”

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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

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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

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They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

~ Herbert Spencer

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Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.

~ Herbert Spencer

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