 | Mary Lee Settle - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 272 pages
...the poor should be eliminated, "to clear the world of them and make room for better." He explained, "If they are sufficiently complete to live, they DO...to live, they die, and it is best they should die." New words were bandied about by coal operators: vested interests, conglomerates, floating loans, bond... | |
 | James Reeve Pusey - Literary Collections - 1998 - 282 pages
...evolutionary low life he feared were people-eaters not just poor people. Spencer said of the poor, "If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die."83 Lu Xun said of "those who oppose reform," "If there are people who want to extend the spirit... | |
 | Ralph Blumenau - Philosophers - 2002 - 644 pages
...the 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. Spencer professed himself a Utilitarian - if we went along with evolutionary... | |
 | Ian Glynn - Medical - 1999 - 468 pages
...effort of nature is to get rid of such to clear the world of them, and make room for better.' . . . 'If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do...complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.'12 As Hofstadter has pointed out, in the USA just after the War of Independence, sentiments such... | |
 | Martin Slattery - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 308 pages
...effort of nature is to get rid of such, to clear the world of them, and make room for better . . . If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die' (Spencer, cited in Abrams, 1968: 74). Spencer's advocacy of evolutionary struggle, of inferior and... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - Political Science - 2005 - 212 pages
..."Beings thus imperfect are nature's failures, and are recalled by her laws when found to be such. . . . If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do...to live, they die, and it is best they should die" (SS 380). Poverty is a useful condition, weeding out the unfit from the human species just as disease... | |
 | Brian Z. Tamanaha - Law - 2006 - 238 pages
...much causes of death in the one case as in the other'. . . . Under nature's laws all alike are put on trial. 'If they are sufficiently complete to live,...complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.'57 Spencer opposed aid to the poor, public education, tariffs, and all regulation beyond what... | |
 | Carol Weisbrod - Law - 2006 - 172 pages
...vacillating, faithless members. 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 die."7 Spencer believed that acquired characteristics were inherited. The best were passing on their... | |
 | Paul M. Rego - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 256 pages
...effort of nature is to get rid of [the unfit], to clear the world of them, and make room for better. ... If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do...complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die."24 According to Spencer, individuals were free to do whatever they pleased, so long as they did... | |
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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. 
