Show SI win ivilL I II I Springfield One of oC the tho most curious provisions In Ip I the late Inte Herbert Spencers will was I that one ammo providing for tor tho the circulation of ot his hl pamphlet against tho tiro metric tem tea among members of ot Parliament whenever that hotly body bOI appears In danger of oC passing legislation adopting the time decimal scheme for Cor weights and mean meas measures ures tires The Time question arose In hi every mind unfamiliar nr with Spencers Silencers post PORI tron tion whether ho was n 1 partisan of oC the tM clumsy old English system The Tho truth IH is that Mr Spencer was WM no more In favor of ot pounds quarts Inches shil tinge lings and pence penco than were the tho entes nt s of ot tho the metric system Ho lie want wanted ed ell Introduced tho the duodecimal system systems which Is III based on rather than tens lemma and thus time Spencer was IM even oven more of ot a 1 revolutionist In this matter than limn tho the other assailants of ot tho iho old English monstrosity Chicago Record Spencer Insisted also on the common tendency toward halving mind and lint In common computations timid Illus Illustrated tented this tendency by Ii time the quarters anti and halves In our own professedly deci decimal mal money on 0 system and In bt our stock quotations ns no well swell ns OR by h many mammy other fa a instances Ho He harped In hi fart fact upon Ullon the Iho need of oC easy ells division Into Inlo aliquot parts and proposed that It If wo we wet t cro to have n 1 change chungo n 0 12 13 division would be he desirable Men Ien hud had gravitated ed Ill toward It because 12 Is niece moro divis divisible tide ible 11 10 Into aliquot parts hurts than any ony other oilier number halves quarters thirds sixths and their reason for or having In iii so many tacos cases adopted the duodecimal system Is that this tide divisibility line greatly facilitated their transactions When counting by II Instead In tend of by tens they have In far fewer cases linen been troubled by b fragmentary num bers hers Now York WorM World Spencer was the lima great apostle of tit In Individualism amid ns as Its lis fought Cou ht always a n 1 losing light fight Throughout his long Ions life lICe ho saw thu tho current of ot Euro Enro penn peon thought setting selling constantly steadily and old with Increasing strength toward socialism Yet such Rueh a n thought as Its surrender never entered his head hend Ills will directs his executors to use 1110 the proceeds of ot publication of tit his works fur for their further lurther Issuance and nu doubtless he died confident that some Romo day the tho tide would turn urged thereto In no slight degree by b his hla own arguments and ex exertions 0 exertions In like manner ho he directed as us asIt asif It U from Crom tho limo grave campaigns which are or yet set ot to bo Ito waged against tho limo Introduction Introduction tion of ot tho the metric system 8 J ion lOR log Ing light fight Doing dead ho will yet et speak to Parliament t that reform na ns often otton ns as n It Is proponed If the time funds nt at atthe the tho disposal of ot his executors hold out |