H. Spencer
Cited as H. Spencer. — 31 quotations
Affiliate
How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
Associable
We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.
Black hole
A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole.
Cognize
The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it.
Cointension
Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms.
Community
The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
Condense
Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit.
Connature
Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness.
Desistance
If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order.
Dietetics
To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes.
Discharge
Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
Drop
Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
Empiric
The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.
Essential
How to live? -- that is the essential question for us.
Factor
The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition.
Fall
They do not make laws, they fall into customs.
Family
The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society.
Fashion
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
Individuality
They possess separate individualities.
Industrialism
Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness.
Knocking
The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper.
Knowledge
To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges.
Locate
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
Obverse
The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief.
Random
So sharp a spur to the lazy, and so strong a bridle to the random.
Sear
The discipline of war, being a discipline in destruction of life, is a discipline in callousness. Whatever sympathies exist are seared.
Solidify
Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem.
Stripping
The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
Structured
The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process.
Thrash
The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines.
Wherewith
The wherewith to meet excessive loss by radiation.