Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-12
srENCER,S LIFE WORK.

the wofh nf his life hv finiahinp The
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leh'h Noluuhe VI MS oyHlpa'hehc hH'
CsOphy. 1t has taken him about
tbtr,,-six ,a.r,to ,oraa tho ,h,,, n,
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tnought now complete, auu perhaps
thu II ust remarkable fe,ture of IL IL
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'nn' INC i"u"u"'iOh VI hie phiosop"J,
laid u generation ago, 10 in perfect
barmonv with tho sunarstructura
ie"'eu III 'aVut Sehts' Whatever HnS
BE- thought OF Mr.. Spencsl's views, he
vuI ba ac,ordad rr,nntnont
plaoo among tue tnlnhets OF
this century. and his work will be of
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great questions which he has en-
lienyoret to answer
IN u feNie" VI the "orh IN tne
Chicago Times. Herald it is noted that
tha n.,v voiums--.be third ot Tho
'no
Applet9n's euitloh-uealH extentlvely
with industrial institutions Tho RI.
.,t.
N'p"ei S'St'
Tho now part and the longest third,
which makos really more than one-half
OF the new volume" !ndustriu instilu-
uonsp-leads to he conclusion that in
dustry regulates itself by necessity and
convenience, or would do 80 II there
were no coercion such as governmental
interference supplies. That in the near
future, ns the pendulum swings. mt first
socialism, tho reuctlonary influence
seized upon by those who cannot wait Tor
evolution to do her perfect work, Will
swing into place, although he Is dubious
and dispassionate as 10 this, and tho on
thusiasms Of youth have died within
him, the universal rhythm OF eyolu-
Twill bring thependulum into true bal
anco. About theabsurdiues and inadeoua-
clos of social m, however, Mr., Speiicer
is neither dubious nor dlspassionate; ho
depicts tho situation in GERMANY MS AN
instance of It's failure in terms of no nm
certainty. And although accounting for
the Germnn's readiness to embrace
bureaucracy. to which their state social
ism il equivalent, by the fact OF their
having emerged so lately from feudnI-
ism, he defines their status as IAN an
proach to an entirely militant tyne of
structure shown in tho growing auto
cratic power of the sOldier-pmperor. who
Is swayed by the absolutely papnn
thought of responsibility TO ancestors i'm
lie
Mr.. Spencer depends upon what he
calls tho "re.em phasizingi of some nj
his early statements for force in the nav
connection His argument as 10 the i'm
portation OF the law OF the family into
society CONTAINED in his "Dome,tic In
stilutiun,"l aud tho decay of society in
consequence, he rcpoats ia part yefbl-
tim from the earlier work. The law of
tho family is uthat during Immature Iifa
10 a A..
worth is small, while during mature life
benefit and worth must vary touetber.u
He tbon quotes from his OWE argument:
"Clearly, with society, az with n
Species survival dopends upon conform
iy to both Of these antngnnistic prin-
ciples. Impart into the family the law
of society, and 10, child ON from infancy
upward have hlu- usla nirg supplies
proportional to tloir hfe-sustnininu
labors. and the society disappears forth
with by death OF all It's young. Impart
t to esntainn ,T sunn r'v ba anu ios
proportion as tho e-sustaining labors
are smal, ana mo society decays from
Now. more or less fully, the doctrine
of colIec'iyisIs, socialists and communists
ignTnos ' tan,ii,' o' oe,woen the
outside tho family. Entirely, under
some forms, and IN chici measure under
ot tba iamiiv 10 tho whole co NM ivg'tne
Moroexpllclt and more causic later, Mr.
spencer perhaps Dogs promise or so in
same general moral nature IN r ali nnd tnp
the oven influences Of a suclalistic state of
society, SdT, SPemGer ASKS: wv hat Is TO be
immunity receiving doles rom I tba