Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert SpencerWilliams and Norgate, 1901 - 692 pages |
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Other editions - View all
An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer,William and Norgate No preview available - 2019 |
Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer,Frederick Howard Collins No preview available - 2015 |
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Popular passages
Page 9 - If Religion and Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable.
Page 222 - In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings went along with activities conducive to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually-avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life...
Page viii - 1. Throughout the universe in general and in detail, there is an unceasing redistribution of matter and motion. 2. This redistribution constitutes evolution where there is a predominant integration of matter and dissipation of motion, and constitutes dissolution where there is a predominant absorption of motion and disintegration of matter.
Page 6 - What is Science? To see the absurdity of the prejudice against it, we need only remark that Science is simply a higher development of common knowledge; and that if Science is repudiated, all knowledge must be repudiated along with it.
Page 557 - We saw that evolution, tending ever towards self-preservation, reaches its limit when individual life is the greatest, both in length and breadth ; and now we see that, leaving other ends aside, we regard as good the conduct furthering self-preservation, and as bad the conduct tending to self-destruction.
Page 497 - The saying that one half the world does not know how the other half lives...
Page 10 - Matter then, in its ultimate nature, is as absolutely incomprehensible as Space and Time. Frame what suppositions we may, we find on tracing out their implications that they leave us nothing but a choice between opposite absurdities.
Page 564 - ... actions are completely right only when, besides being conducive to future happiness, special and general, they are immediately pleasurable, and that painfulness, not only ultimate but proximate, is the concomitant of actions which are wrong.
Page 552 - The ultimate man will be one whose private requirements coincide with public ones. He will be that manner of man who, in spontaneously fulfilling his own nature, incidentally performs the functions of a social unit; and yet is only enabled so to fulfil his own nature by all others doing the like.
Page 574 - If we define altruism as being all action which, in the normal course of things, benefits others instead of benefiting self, then, from the dawn of life, altruism has been no less essential than egoism.