Herbert Spencer

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot read more

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

This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. read more

This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural
selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle
for life."