The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

arouse storm of opposition. and he
was naturally of a retiring and peace
able disposition. Only when his junior.
/ Alfred Russell Wallace was about TO
make announcement of the theory long
since made known to the circle of his
friends by Darwin, did he come forward
with the proofs which he had ac-
cumulated in support of evolution. The
storm burst as he expected, but during
the fifty years that have elapsed since
the publication of the Origin of Spe-
cies" QS5S), pale1ntology, embryol-
ogy, geology. and all of the allied
I sciences have come to aid in the dem
onstration of the truth of evolution. Il
is to Darwin that the entire credit for
starting science on the right track Is
due.
Abraham Lincoln QS09-1S65). born in
the same year as Darwin, was an in
novator in the world of craftsmanship.
no less than the great evOlutionist IN
the world of science To him is due
the new craftsmanship. like the new
diplomacy, built upon honesty. and di-
rectness. Above the trickery of the
politician, he believed and proved that
real constructive element in public
as in private life. Where policy was ar
variance with principle, he did not hest
tate to follow principle, contrary 10
all Machiavellian and Bismarckian
laws of procedure. Fighting against the
terrible odds in his own political fam
lily, he succeeded by mere force of will
to do the right as he saw it.
The Greatest Novelist.
William Makepeace Thackeray QS11-
1862 by right of realism, psychological
analysis, the depicting of character
forcibly and satirically, the leader Of
our novelists. The romantic tales of
Scott and Bulwer belong to another
age 1t is Thacxeray who is nearest
to the spirit of the nineteenth century
in the search for the real and the pre-
sentation of society as it is. What
though this modern Swift cuts us to
the quick with his irony! He is all the
greater teacher thereby. Becky Sharp
will live as a creature to be abhorred
when Fob Roy is forgotten, and Eu-
gene Aram has long passed away. Com
ing generations viii read ThackeTay
to understand our time, and they viii
not misunderstood it The followers
of Thackeray are legion-but they fol-
low at distance
Herbert Spencer QS20) may be called
the evolutional philosopher. Before the
announcement of Darwin S discoveries
he had been working along similar
lines in the department of thought. IN
1860 he published First PRINCIPLES, the
cornerstone of, the huge sphilosophic
structure to which he has been adding
constantly year by year ever since.
In this age of psychological research a
great co-ordinating. mind, like that of
Spencer was needed to show the signifi
canoe of the discoveries of science in
the realm of thought. He has acted as
a check and corrective upon the wild
theories of biological and chemical
science and by his laying down of log
zeal principles clarified the atmosphere
so that proper and justifiable conclu-
sions might be reached. Ethics, psy-
chology, sociology. all fall within his
purview. He has used a single golden
thread to guide him through all his in
yestigations-the development from
natural causes. His is the nineteenth,
century philosophy. a system which ass
tounds the reader by its scomprehen-
siveness and tfloroughness.
Ulysses Simpson Grant QS22-1SS5) sue
ceeded where many generals failed. 1t
is not always fair to judge by results