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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Herbert Spencer
Born: April 27, 1820
Died: December 8, 1903 (aged 83)
Bio: Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
Known for:
- Social Statics (1851)
- The Man Versus the State (1884)
- The principles of sociology (1874)
- Education Intellectual, Moral and Physical (1860)
- First principles (1860)
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