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" It seems hard that widows and orphans should be left to struggle for life or death. Nevertheless, when regarded not separately, but in connection with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence... "
Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ... - Page 323
by Herbert Spencer - 1851 - 476 pages
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Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the State

Herbert Spencer - Politics, Practical - 1892 - 452 pages
...in connexion with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of beneficence — the same beneficence which brings...children of diseased parents, and singles out the intemperate and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic. There are many very amiable people who...
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Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the State

Herbert Spencer - Social evolution - 1892 - 442 pages
...beneficence—the same beneficence which brings to early graves the children of diseased parents, and singles out the intemperate and the debilitated as the victims...of an epidemic. There are many very amiable people who have not the nerve to look this matter fairly in the face. Disabled as they are by their sympathies...
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Machiavelli to Marx: Modern Western Political Thought

Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence— the same beneficence that brings to early graves the children of diseased parents,...and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic. . . . We must call those spurious philanthropists, who, to prevent present misery, would entail greater...
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The Victorian Age in Prose

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - History - 1988 - 264 pages
...separately, but in connexion with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence — the same beneficence...people — people over whom in so far as their feelings are concerned we may fitly rejoice — who have not the nerve to look this matter fairly in the face....
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The Cultivation of Hatred

Peter Gay - History - 1993 - 724 pages
...in connexion with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of beneficence — the same beneficence which brings...children of diseased parents, and singles out the intemperate and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic." People unable to face these realities...
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World Civilization: A Brief History

Robin W. Winks - History - 1993 - 596 pages
...highest benef1cence — the same beneficence which brings to early graves the children of deceased parents, and singles out the low-spirited, the intemperate,...and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic. Nature was harsh only to better bestow its blessings. For if one were to be kind — or, in other words,...
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The Science and Politics of Racial Research

William H. Tucker - Law - 1994 - 388 pages
..."regarded ... in connexion [sic] with the interests of universal humanity," Spencer found "full of beneficence — the same beneficence which brings...children of diseased parents, and singles out the intemperate and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic."66 As a consequence, the Social Darwinists...
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An Anthology of Single Land Tax Thought

Kenneth C. Wenzer - Business & Economics - 1997 - 490 pages
...of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence—the same beneficence which brings to early graves the...victims of an epidemic. There are many very amiable people—people over whom insofar as their feelings are concerned we may fitly rejoice—who have not...
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Legal Systems and Legal Science

Marijan Pavčnik - Law - 1997 - 156 pages
...in connexion with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of beneficence - the same beneficence which brings to...children of diseased parents, and singles out the intemperate and the debilitated as victims of an epidemic. There are many very amiable people who have...
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Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments, Volume 3

John Offer - Philosophy - 2000 - 416 pages
...separately, but in connection with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence — the same beneficence...intemperate, and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic.50 It is not wrong that the sins of the parents be visited upon the children. Perhaps it may...
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