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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer
Wisdom, Ignorance, Science

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer
Wise, Wisdom, Diversity
'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 16

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

Herbert Spencer
Wisdom, Theory Of Evolution, Facts
Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.389

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