Herbert Spencer Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

  Herbert Spencer

  Progress, Accidents

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 1, ch. 2, 4

• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Humanity, Growth

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.79

• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Law, Evil

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