Tore can be no question that a practical oxperionco of the exigencies of social life goes far towards discrediting some of the most plausible theories of the day. No writer, perbnps, of modern timos has the gift of carrying convietion to the minds of his readers in a higher degree than Mr, Herbert Spencer. His style is rough, but clour, and his deductions absolutely irrefatable. 'The chain of his logic is with. out n flaw, and the disciple reads on, carried way by the irresistible argu. ments of his teacher, step by' step, until he is Innded in a sphere where -his surroundings traly are strange and somewhat startling, but the road to which has been ensily and almost unconsciously traversed. Nothing, for instance, is more fascinating than the contention of Mr. Spencer against Government interference in schemes for the public good, and Govern-mont assistance in matters which affect the public welfare, He gives us
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