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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing.
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)