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Herbert Spencer Quotes about Atheism

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

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.

Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.518