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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.
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.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Government is essentially immoral.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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