The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-11
HERBERT SPENCER
GOES To REWARD
The Great English Philosopher
Died al Brighten Aged
30 Years
AEN7Y GEORGES TRigUTE
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ri Darwin rents. Spencer Huxley. wal
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Ing and ne ZaE@aSGa from which the
.GEai c~GggelI&l0ES cE Darwin might have
been Hzachzl- DagViD, Indeed IL not
freely conceded tna credit II first STAT
Ing his c~DGc.G&IDnE, Tor Wallace has
maay parLiE&LS vino Insist that ne ac-
tgf1gy drew Ea& conclusion, a1d %Tot@
&H1 published Il, which geEolGlioaIzed
currents NJ ~p5I30aGpay, before Darwin
.GlI u There haG n=EeE been jealousy
Or feeling among THESE great thinkers
az u credit for the GlgcOyGry, II sGcA
i may bG called
E~pencerB writings on the land aueg-
tiJa aroUged the sharp criticism Of
L2[Ejiy SECs * wiz L. q i3ELA.> bysE~r II
p@ypicxcG P~hIIoaopher," undertook 20
DEc@e tEIa1 8r. Spencer waa originally
3 single taZer and aftsT@ard dropped
that doctrine Though his little book
on EpenGGFg land question EieTB !g
bitter In many DiAcca, no finer tribute
PRODUCTION 70 his book 3Jr. George
wrote:
Estinate CT Spencer.
Although he Gtan2S for much that IT,
yet in dispute, there a be no queg-
ton that at the present sime-l692-
Herbert Spencer, Of all his contempO-
rArles, holds the foremost place in the
intellectual world, and through a wild
ef circle than any q nOw living, and
pefhapa than any man Of our century,
liz regarded ag Il profound, original and
authoritative thinkcr-by many in
az the greatest thinker the world
ever yet seen.
SO large Is h field over which Mr..
S~pencerts writings iave ranged, go
many are the special branches Of
he has laid under contribu-
ton, 30 difficult to the ordinary mind
the abHtractfDns In which he has
and the I~crrnino!Ogy in which
they are cOuchcd, that this great repu-
tatiDn IL with the large majority Of
the intelligent men who accept It more
q matter of faith than Of reason. But
this rather adds to than dctract from
the popular Estimate; for what to US
IL vague often seems on hat account
greater, n what We have no
means Of measuring. I'll the more pro-
found. Nor does Mr. Spencer'g stand
az one Of the grcatc%t, to nan
the very greatest, of philosophers, lack
gubgtantiaI basis IN the opinions Of
those deemed competent 10 aug in
tcIiectua! power.
John Stuart MiiIn' View.
Irh,1 Stuart MIL sfylcI him isnpc r,
the acutcgt mctaphysiciaII Of recent
times. one Of the most viz yroua az well
az the hOIdcst thinker tat English
speculation has yet ~prodIced." Pro-
fenHor Ray Lancaster spoke Of him as
"an acute observer and Experimental
lit vcrBed in phyHicB and chemistry,
but above all, thoroughly instructed In
Hcicntffc Methods" Richard A. Proc
tor charactcriZcd him ~ the ~"clearcst
Of ~thinkera." G. II. Lewis said ut is
questionable whether any thinker Of
finer calibcr has appeared in our CEN
tuiy," ana that he alone OF all British
thinkcfB haB organized Il philosophy"
Profc"Hur Dayid Mason deemed him
the one Of all u thinkers who has
founded for himself the largest new
scheme OF II Eyslcmatic philosophy"
DT, McCUHh, Who fundamentally diff
fcrcd from him, auid "hIg bold Ecner-
nlizationa are always instructive. and
some Of them may in the end be cB-
tabliRhcd ag The p~rofOundc8t laws Of
the movable universe" st. George
MiVnrt, who AZ Il Catholic Is also at
variance In important matters, saws
I'VE ann deny the titlc Of phlloso-
pher TO such a thinker as Mr.. Spencer,
who does genuinely bind together diff
fcfcnt II hitherto alien subjects, and
that by 4 clear and vide though uci-
thcr an all-cofnprehcnSivc nor a spir-
ituai hypothcsls, the principle OF cvo-
lnllnn" hTIfcIgnr 'rtt1I11I rallr lir,
the apostle of the understanding"
Huxley on Spencer.
His profound and vigorous writings"
have been likened by Professor Huxley
to che embodiment of the spirit of
,Dcscarlc8 In the Knowledge Of our own
day" Darwin spoke Of him as "our
, great philosopher" greeted him as the
great expounder of the principle OF
evolution" II wrote to him that 'cv-
cry one with eyes to see and ears to
hear ought to bow their knee to you"
Professor Stanley Jevons ranked his
work with the. "Principia" OF Newton.
John EiSkc. representing un1uestion-
ably the opinion of large numbers Of
intelligent and influential men. declares
1t to be of the cUiiber Of that of Aris-
tote and Newton, but "as far sur
passing their work in it's VastneSs Of
performance as the railway SURPRISES
the scdan~chair or us the telegraph
surpasscs the carrier pigeon" Presi-
dent Barnard in the same strain said.
his philosophy is the only philosophy
that satisfies an earnestly inquiring
mind" adding that I'VE have in Her
bert Spencer not only the ~profoundest
thinker OF our time, but the most ca
pacious md powerful intellect of all
time. Aristotle and his master were
not more beyond the pygmies who pre-
cedcd them han he Is beyond Aristotle.
Kant, Hegel. Fichte and Schelling are
gropers In the dark by the side Of
him."