The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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Quotes by Herbert Spencer

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. Y.— filed under Action
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."— filed under Evolution
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