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Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Book by Herbert Spencer · 3 quotes · Men, Atheism, Humans

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“It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.”

“Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.”