"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"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.“
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"Science is organized knowledge."
-Herbert Spencer
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
-Herbert Spencer
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"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
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