Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...
Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...
Herbert Spencer
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Digitized by VjOOQIC 350 NATIONAL EDUCATION. which respond to them, that the effects are really produced. Intellect is not a power, but an instrument — not a thing which itself moves and works, hut a thing which is moved and worked by forces behind it To say that men are ruled by reason, is as irrational as to say that men are ruled by their eyes. Reason is an eye — the eye through which the desires see their way to gratification. And educating it only makes it a better eye — gives it a vision ...more accurate and more comprehensive — does not at all alter the desires subserved by it However far-seeing you make it, the passions will still determine the directions in which it shall be turned — the objects on which it shall dwelL Just those ends which the instincts or sentiments propose will the intellect be employed to accomplish : culture of it having done nothing but increase the ability to accomplish them. Probably some will urge that enlightening men enables them to discern the penalties which naturally attach to wrong- doing; and in a certain sense this is true.
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