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

Book by Herbert Spencer · 4 quotes · Men, Atheism, Humans

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

“It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.”

“Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.”

“Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.”