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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spencer
Life, Reality, Relation
Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.24, VM eBooks

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.

Herbert Spencer
Reality, Criticism, Negative
Herbert Spencer (1920). “Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921”

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Herbert Spencer
Reality, Rumor, May
Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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