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That which made Herbert neer not as other men are, was that be not) afraid to stand alone. He often found himself in a minority, "approaching often minority of one," and was "content to be so," knowing that he was true to his own mind. Like Christ, when the choice had to be made, he unhesitatingly preferred the truth, morality, and unpopularity to " cheap popularity founded upon lies. Violation of the truth was a matter for rectification: no "glossing" by humour, or compromise, or shuffling was permissible. He hated irreverence towards beliefs with which he disagreed s much as he loathed hypocrisy, whether coming. from the preacher or the congregation, or both. The whole of his vast system of philosophy be regarded as having for its object the establishment of our ideas of right and wrong upon a scientific basis. More effectively than most dic Christians he knew bow to "stand up straight before God.""
Contrast this life with the average life, half trickery and money-grubbing, and we see the difference between human natare as it is and as it will be. The lives of those whose sole idols are money, dress, anobbishness, petty rovenge, and the barbaric idea of bossing." or ruling other people—all inferior sentiments—are not ethical, lives; Thay are as far removed as the heavens from the earth from the folfilof life as yet possible that it is the plossant task of Dr, Duncan to depict in the fescineting biography he has recently 00 From his long. and intimate association with Spencer's work, and from the special facilities he has enjoyed of acoeee to Spencer's oorrespondesice with his parents extending, over a period of more than thirty years, Dr. Duneaa is the authority beet quali-fitd to: presant in a concise and at the same time complete form the various aspects of the great philoaopher's long and wonderful life and work. In a heightly-written style that never palls, shows us by copious quotations the parity end depth of his nature. We '890 Spencer the man ae well as Spencer the. plilosopher—makiag complete the piotare of which a wayward world has persisted in seeing only one-half The Life and Letters oflectively disproves the common notion that Spencer was; all brains and no heart."
First and have none of that ear face-morality which
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