Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
More Quotes by Talcott Parsons
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.