Ten years latter when he came to this country, and I was the same obscure individual. I cannot imagine what he could have remembered about me unless it was that I used to tell him he was not a thorough [deleted: my telling him in the Athenaeum that my objection to his system was that he was]

Yet Spencer again showed the breath of his sympathies by writing to me and asking me to see him and renew acquaintance. These two little facts are worth mention as showing the spirit of the man.

When philosophy becomes an adult science, as it will before the twentieth century is have over, the first question to be asked in weighting the importance of any philosopher will be what important truth did he prove, in the sense in which truths of philosophy can be

For the present, then, the questions that we ask in order to estimate a man's greatness in philosophy are. First, What great conceptions did he introduce into philosophy? Second, what line of thought did he follow out so far and so consistently as be very instructive either as showing the great power

Spencer's followers and, no doubt, Spencer himself imagined that he was the father of evolutionism, but almost great philosophers have had a theory as to how the Cosmos came about, a theory lying near the heart of their systems. Such a theory must either suppose the Cosmos eternal and immutable or it must be and evolutionary theory. For ever a system of Emanation is akin

Other conceptions, however, were introduced in philosophy by Spencer; such was the doctrine that Innate Ideas are, in some sense, and by some means, hereditary, and were their first appearance empirical. This idea was put forth in the fifties in Spencer's Principles of Psychology, a book long antedating Fechner's most celebrated work; and I should have supposed that Spencer had some claim to be considered as the Father of Modern Psychology, but since Prof. James who knows a hundred times

I do not know what other great ideas Spencer originated; but he certainly had extraordinary skill and ingenuity in forming theories that deserved examination. He made be studied with profit as master of abductive reasoning.

The answer to the second question, how much he taught the world by following out his own line of thought, is very difficult to make sure of for the reason that great historical forces were turning many powerful intellects to the study of

Spencer certainly took up this line of thought before anybody else did. It was as thoroughly original with him, as any thought ever is with anybody, an his works certainly did in the beginning influence a collection of men as remarkable for their intellect as for their great numbers, and influence them to such a degree that all their subsequence opinions were built upon that basis.