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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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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