Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Pt. I, The Unknowable; Ch. I, Religion and Science
First Principles (1862)
“Nature is usually wrong.”
1870 - 1903, his lecture 'Ten O'Clock' (1885)
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Context: In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.<!-- 23
“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62
“It is the usual though inequitable method of the world, to pronounce an action to be either right or wrong, as it is attended with good or ill success.”
Est omnino iniquum, sed usu receptum, quod honesta consilia vel turpia, prout male aut prospere cedunt, ita vel probantur vel reprehenduntur.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 9, 7.
Letters, Book V