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Show HERBERT SPENCER NEAR DEATH. Condition of Great Philosopher ts Causing H3 Friends Alarm. Herbert Spencer, the foremost of living philosophers, founder of the "Synthetic Philosophy" and perhaps the greatest of intellectual Englishmen, English-men, is quite ill at his home in Brighton, Brigh-ton, and is belreved his death is near. Mr. Spencer for some weeks past, has been disclosing unusual symptoms of weakness, and, although his mind seemed to be perfectly clear until a few days ago, bis present attack is alarmingly like a general breaking down of his mental and physical strength. ri Tir.-c.arr'-bomat Derby in 1820, and haL been active in the intellectual intel-lectual life of the world since he was 27 years old. He has worked upon his great system of philosophy for upward up-ward of forty-three years, although in 1896, with the publication of the last volume of his "Principles of Sociology," Sociol-ogy," that immense undertaking was supposed to have been completed. Mr. Herbert Spencer Spencer has been a sharp controver-salist, controver-salist, and he has met some notable men in the lists, among them Frederic Harrison, the positivist, and more recently re-cently Prof.- Weismann, of Freiburg. He was never married. |