The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer
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More quotes by Herbert Spencer
- The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Education has for its object the formation of character.
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