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Show HERBERT SPENCER. H A modern Socrates was Herbert Spencer, an B original thinker. Had- the world possessed no B books when he was born, ho would have made B them. His mind was not versatile like Aristotles'; B it was a puroly scientific mind in its methods of B thought, but the underlying, unspoken desire of B the man was to see the men and women of the B world happier through better breeding, better B training, better schools, more wholesome laws. To B formulate such rules for the guidance of men and B legislative bodies and -courts, he spent the best B years of his life. The ruling trait of the man was M his love of exact justice. He never attempted to Lm formulate a code of laws or of morals, rather his H method was to lay bare the imperfections of men H and governments; not only their imperfections, M but the cause of them, and by a subtle induction M reached conclusions which could not be com- " M batted, and which in themselves pointed out the Lm right path in science or in political or domestic M economy, or any question which dealt with the or- 1 M der" of Nature or the government of men and M families. His idea seemed to be to reduce the M higher intelligence with which he was endowed to forms which all the world could understand, and ' clinch it with deductions which would be sermons M to his readers. In his youth the thought must ' H ! i j jl j have como to him that it was man's duy to'give B M H 111 ! II tne best ln nIs own llfe to he llveS of Ws fellow H (I I I Jl ' I men' and k0 held steadily to tnat purpose and HH , j I "wrought mightily" for half a century. It would B f , n ' require a book to give a clear idea of the wonder- Bj ' Lj I J ful man, and then since he is dead there is no Bj j f i one loft to write the book. fl! t ' f 1(! Ho was ono tne world's great men, great flj i j Ji ! originally, great in an intellect which must have Bf ' , , I grasped the best thoughts of all the great men of Bi I ' ,i the past, not in surprised admiration, but as some- flt l Jf thing which he had always known. He stood Hjj'j j ! : 1 ', among the great men of the Nineteenth century B' t'. ! gentle, non-assertive in his ways, but still holding fl : ) i j , j J but a few as his peers, and smiling from a far fl ' j j ' ' off intellectual altitude down upon thousands who B i i j " 1 1 I were making a great noise below him, knowing HH l,j ' i 1 . I that within three generations they would be for- H, j ; 1 gotten. B j ' ' ! ' jl England will have one more sacred grave now. B 1 ' J f j It ought to be in the old Abbey and could his B jl I ashes be borne there, we suspect there would be a Bhj ' 1 ' III stirring of the ashes already there, for not one of Hji ) a those sleepers, whether king or statesman or sol- fl ? ji dier or scholar, ever is life possessed a more nll- fl ( d S embracing and commanding intellect than did Her- fl j i bert Spencer. |