What Herbert Spencer thinks about happiness

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English philosopher and sociologist (1820 to 1903); author of Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical.

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1 dated position, c. 1854–1861, in their own words. Our reading of what Herbert Spencer has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1854–1861

   Our readingTeaching how to keep healthy is as important as any teaching there is

   Their wordsWe infer that as vigorous health and its accompanying high spirits are larger elements of happiness than any other things whatever, the teaching how to maintain them is a teaching that yields in moment to no other whatever.

   ↗Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (1854-1861)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book