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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Herbert Spencer

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Death Live Moments Place
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
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.
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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

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