Herbert Spencer - Order Quotes

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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

Herbert Spencer
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

Herbert Spencer
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer
We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.

Herbert Spencer
From generation to generation Science has been proving uniformities of relation among phenomena which were before thought either fortuitous or supernatural in their origin - has been showing an established order and a constant causation where ignorance had assumed irregularity and arbitrariness.

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Be there be or be there not any other revelation, we have a veritable revelation in Science - a continuous disclosure, through the intelligence with which we are endowed, of the established order of the Universe.

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Scientific truths, of whatever order, are reached by eliminating perturbing or conflicting factors, and recognizing only fundamental factors.

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If we contemplate the order of nature, we see that everywhere vast results are brought about by accumulations of minute actions.

Herbert Spencer