Walter Terence Stace (1886–1967) British civil servant, educator and philosopher.
“No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”
— Herbert Spencer, book Social Statics
Pt. IV, Ch. 30 : General Considerations
Social Statics (1851)
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