The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-23

SEVERE LABOR.
New York Herald, odd
The arrival yesterday morning IN the Ser
via from Liverpool OF Herbert Spencer, the
distinguished writer on sociology, and adj
vocate, with the late DR.. Darwin, OF the
theory OF development, was an event that
excited much comment in the city, the
more so from the almost instantaneous dis
appearance OF Mr.. Spencer, who was car
ried OFF bodily by Professor Youmans be-
fore the vessel was fairly at her pier.
The weather for the first half OF the Ser
Was voyage was pretty rough and Mr..
Spencer was sick most OF the time, keep
! Ing closely in his state-room, so the anX-
| ious passengers who wanted TO know how
they grew up from embryOs and proto-
plasms were not Sratified Mr.. Spencer
! has been working very hard for several
years on his great undertaking in psychol-
| ogv. OF which several volumes have been
published. He is represented aS being
medium-sized, elderly man, with strong
Saxon features, adorned with the common
English Side-whiskers and dressed III a
light brown tweed suit.
| Among the passengers who saw as much
as they could OF the sociolOgist were the
well-known lawyer and author OF the new
Code, David Dudley Field; the veteran
music publisher. Mr.. W. A. Pond; DR.. II.
a. Caldwell, OF west Thirty-fourth street;
n. L. ucCready, Jr., and Charles Backus.
BUSY CAREER.
1t is understood that Mr.. Spencer comes
to this country solely for rest from his severe
work and for physical and mental rccrea-
ton. He does not intend to lecture nor in
any way to come before the public. His
life has been one of remarkable brain ac-
tiyity. lie was born in 1920, and his "a
Their was teacher. The boy at an early
age was fond OF keeping insects
and watching their develOpment-his
first studies in Darwinism. At thir-
teen he bc9an regular studies. and eX-
celled especially in the higher mathematics.
! At sixteen he devised Z new and valuable
theorem in descriptive geometry. The
next year he studied civil engineering UNI
der Sir Charles Fox. In 1871 he gave up
engineering and resumed his studies Of
nature. lie made hcrbarium and bOtani-
cal press aud practiccd drawing and model
ling. He invented valuable improvements
in matchmaking, made machine TO make
! types by compression instead OF cast
ing, invented new kind OF print
ing-preSs, and was the first to util-
ize electricity in the printing now called
glypt0 graphic. In 1913 he ventured to
| London in search Of literary wolk, but he
did not find it, and took up his profession
OF civil engineering. About 1913 he began
| to appear in the newspapers ard magazines
as the author OF articles, chiefly on scien-
| tilic subjects, which soon attracted the at
tentOn OF scholars. For four years he was
regular writer on the Economist, and
about this time began to formulate his
ideas OF evolution.
MIND AND NATURE.
In 1860 he put .he marrow OF his ideas
into the following words: "The universal
law OF intelligence flows directly from the
cooperation OF mind and nature in the
genesis OF our ideas. 1t is his, that Just
in proportion rs there is persistency in
the order or relationship Of events in ma
turc, so will there be a persistency in the
connection which subsiSts between the cor
responding states Of consciousness. The
succession OF coCXistencc OF external
phenomena produces, Of course, a
like succession or cocXiStence in
our mental perceptions; and when
any two physical states often occur
together there is at length established an
internal tendency for these states always
to recur i'll the same order" Extending,
therefore, from this law, the author first
traces the growth OF the human inteli-
gence through the lower phenomena Of re-
ileX action and instinct; then shows how
our unconscious life merges into success
sion OF conscious phenomena; and lastly.
carries us upward through the regions of
memory to the highest exercise OF reason
and the normal development OF the feel
ingS.
At Messrs. Applcton'S. the American pub
fishers OF Mr.. Spencer's works, the re-
porter learned that though many di,tin-
gulshed persons desired to hear the Eng
lish philosopher, ii was not probable that
ne would in any way come before the pub
lie. AT present he and gentlemen travelling
with him are in charge OF Professor You
mans, somewhere near the city, to give Mr..
Spencer time to recover from the effects Of
| his VOYAGE