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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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