Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-16
HERBERT SPENCER,
The Great Philosopher Who is Coming
to America for a Brief Visit and 10
:, Rest From His LabOrs.
His Life Studious One, Devoted to the
Work Which Has Blessed the Human
Race With Reasons Light.

OF all the nlustrious foreigners who have
visited America, from Tslleyrand in his
early days TO Charles Kingsley and Dickens,
none, says the Chicago Times, have ever re-
ceived a heartier welcome than the people
OF this country will be glad to give distin-
guished gentleman who is about to arrive.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer is expected to arrive in
New York about the 2lst instant. His
coming has been deferred, and the purposs
OF his visit are different from those he ~
in view when two years ago he Co.
plated a trip around the world. IL
desired 10 visit this new field Of obserN
in order 10 extend his social studies.
was coming, note book in hand, to
the social tendencies and the insti
of the Americans. Circumstances inf
with the ful6llment of his design,
though he did not give it up, 1t wa
stood 10 be postponed for some yea
Spencer finds himself now in poor
and he has been enjoined TO discontL
studies and literary pursuits for some
AT least. He visits this country, tn ereior~
for a change of scene and complete rest from
work. To this end, it is said, he hopes TO
travel quietly through he country, avoiding
Tor the most part any attentions on the part
OF the public that might retard his recuper-
alton. 1t is quite likely that be will not be
90 accessible to newspaper reporters as most
/ eminent foreigners visiting this country. de
| expected Of one who has lived all his days
| rather sedentary and a very studious lie. 1t
| ia said that he is ayerse 10 meeting many
strangers. When he is at home he
lives in bachelor apartments at Bays
water, London. His closest friends are
| found among the philosophic sect, which
| until recently included Darwin, Lewes, and
| George Eliot, and whose most conspicuous
members to-day are Spencer, Huxley, and
| Tyndall. In the evening he often meets these
| cougenial friends and others who, IL not
| equally eminent, are allied with them IN
| aspirations and attachments. His mornings
are usually devoted TO literary labor. He Is
! in the habit of first debating TO an amanuen-
sis and then laboriously reviewing his M auu-
script. He is a member of the Athen@um
Club, where he often goes in the afternoon 10
| play billiards. He is very fond OF the game,
| and in i! finds one OF his chief resources Tor
| recreation In politics he is a Liberal, and
in most things has been substantially in ac-
| cord with Gladstone and John Bright. For
the petty details of politics he has no liking,
but In politics OF the larger sort he takes deep
| interest. He is in moderate circumstances, and
would indeed be poor il he had not been rem
dered independent, in a small way, some
| years ago, BY modest legacy left him by
| distant kinsman. The works which have
| immortalized his name have not been able
to put bread into his mouth. The more
popular OF ms works, sucn as MS Educ0tOn,
and Essays and Social Statistics, yielded him a
fair return for his labor, but on the great
work to whose production he has given the
best years of his life, The Synthetie Philoso-
ply Of Herbert Spencer, he has spent several
thousand rounds. Though England is proud
OF Spencer as her foremost thinker, his books
have very email sale there. In pecuni-
airy sense the United States has been a much
more liberal patron OF the philosopher, En-
has found in this country many sppre-
ciative readers, and the principles of
sociology as he has expounded them have
been deeply POWDERED and widely difn-ed
here, and many of them have been carried
into practice. Herbert Spencer more thor
oughly than any philosophical writer OF the
age has made social science Ineligible TO
the common people. by looking at human
nature in all it's aspects, and not merely
from the standpoint OF the logi clan or theo-
Logan. The route he will take in this
country is not yet known here. While in
the East he viii partake OF the hospitality
OF a number Of representative citizens who
have relations OF personal friendship with
him.