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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
Living
Multiplicity
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Men
Ignorance
Jury
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
People
Ignorance
Jury
Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer
Government
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Health
Morality
Duty
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Herbert Spencer
Government
Old
Risk
Terror
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
Knowledge
Confusion
Man
Order
Will
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
Law
Man
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert Spencer
Freedom
Tax
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Herbert Spencer
Prejudice
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer
Poetry
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
Future
Man
Past
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer
Government
Nature
Human nature
Present
Republican
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Herbert Spencer
Change
Idea
Evolution
Now
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
Education
Knowledge
Action