Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out … - Herbert Spencer

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Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out of the old unadapted nature — the index of a character unfitted to its conditions — and only as fast as the unfitness diminishes can crime diminish.

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Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. He developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He is known for coining the phrase "survival of the fittest".

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Alternative Names: Spencert Gerbert Spencer
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Generation after generation the honest and independent, not marrying till they had the means, and striving to bring up their families without assistance, have been saddled with extra burdens, and hindered from leaving a desirable posterity; while the dissolute and the idle, especially when given to that lying and servility by which those in authority are deluded, have been helped to produce and to rear progeny, characterized, like themselves, by the absence of mental traits needed for good citizenship.

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فليعترف العلم بأن قوانينه تنطبق على الظواهر والأمورالنسبية فقط، وليعترف الدين أن لاهوته خرافة لتبرير ايمان يتنافى مع العقل. وليتوقف الدين عن تصوير الله بشكل إنسان عظيم، والأسوأ في تصويره بالقسوة والغدر والتعطش لسفك الدماء ومحبة النفاق والرياء من الناس. وليتوقف العلم عن إنكار وجود الله، أو التسليم بالمادية على أساس أنها قضية مسلمة. أن كلا العقل والمادة ظواهر نسبية، وهما معلول مزدوج لعلة نهائية ينبغي أن تظل طبيعتها مجهولة . ان الاعتراف بهذه لوقة الغامضة هو جوهر الحقيقة في كل دين، وبداية الفلسفة.

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