 | Herbert Spencer - Human beings - 1873 - 556 pages
...as between physical character and circumstances ; and radical defects are as much causes of death in the one case as in the other. He on whom his own stupidity,...deficient, the probabilities are that, in the long ran, some disastrous, or, in the worst cases — fatal result will follow. And, however irregular the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Politics, Practical - 1892 - 452 pages
...intellectual, or a corporeal one. Beings thus imperfect are Nature's failures, and are recalled by her when found to be such. Along with the rest they are...to live, they die, and it is best they should die. And however irregular the action of this law may appear — however it may seem that much chaff is... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Social evolution - 1892 - 442 pages
...intellectual, or a corporeal one. Beings thus imperfect are Nature's failures, and are recalled by her when found to be such. Along with the rest they are...to live, they die, and it is best they should die. And however irregular the action of this law may appear—however it may seem that much chaff is left... | |
 | Hartley Withers - Banks and banking - 1928 - 676 pages
...the case for competition and its beneficial consequences: "Under nature's laws all alike are put on trial. If they are sufficiently complete to live,...to live, they die, and it is best they should die." u John D. Rockefeller only put the matter a little more delicately — for his audience, after all,... | |
 | ARTHUR KENYON ROGERS - 1923 - 498 pages
...nature's failures, and are recalled by her when found to be such. Along with the rest they are put on trial. If they are sufficiently complete to live,...to live they die, and it is best they should die." Even if we could share Spencer's pious confidence that "nature's" penalties are always just, and proportioned... | |
 | Tomás Martinez - Business & Economics - 178 pages
...room for the better . . . if they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well that they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die and it is best they should.15 According to social Darwinism, the legislature, by introducing social legislation to help... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - Science - 1992 - 292 pages
...same class as the victims of weak viscera or malformed limbs. Under nature's laws all alike are put on trial. " If they are sufficiently complete to live,...to live, they die, and it is best they should die." " Spencer deplored not only poor laws, but also state-supported education, sanitary supervision other... | |
 | Peter Dickens - Nature - 1992 - 234 pages
...whole effort of nature is to get rid of such, to clear the world of them, and make for better. ... If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die and it is best they should die.'8 As we will see shortly, however, other sociologists did not see such a necessary connection... | |
 | Mary Midgley - Philosophy - 1994 - 220 pages
...world of them, and to make room for better . . . If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best that they should die.5 This was evidently one of many ways in which nineteenth-century observers who... | |
 | David Macarov - Political Science - 1995 - 348 pages
...trial. 1f they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. 1f they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.4 SOC1AL DARW1N1SM AND B1G BUS1NESS No philosophy or theory could have been so well suited to the... | |
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If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die. 
