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Title: Men and thought in modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Scott, Ernest, 1868-
Subjects: Political science
Publisher: Melbourne : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hich makes effortson every side, thus digging galleries most of which arestopped by the rock that is too hard, but which, in one direc-tion at least, prove possible to follow to the end, and breakout into the light once more. This direction is the line ofevolution resulting in man.—Bergson. What do we owe to Darwin? The first successful vin-dication of the evolution idea. It was not his own, nor washe its first champion, yet we always and rightly think ofDarwin and the Doctrine of Descent together. He made itcurrent coin of the intellectual realm. He made the nationsthink in terms of evolution.—J. Arthur Thomson. A true scientific judgment consists in giving a free reinto speculation on the one hand, while holding ready to thebrake of verification with the other. Now it is just becauseDarwin did both these things, and with so admirable a judg-ment, that he gave to the world of natural history so gooda lesson as to the most effective way of driving the chariotof science.—Romanes.
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HERBERT SPENCER. (Page 190 Chapter XIV. HERBERT SPENCER AND INDIVIDUALISM. IN 1877 Mr. Herbert Spencer gave some very interestingevidence before a Royal Commission on Copyrightwhich was then sitting in England. He furnishedfull details about the sales of his books and the remu-neration which had come to him from writing them. Theresults were the very opposite of encouraging, and few menwould have persisted in work so large in sheer bulk, andwhich involved so much toil, in face of the apparent disin-clination of the public to pay heed to, or cash for, hismessage. It required fourteen years to sell 750 copies ofSpencers Social Statics, twelve and a half years to sell 650copies of his Principles of Sociology, and ten and a halfyears to sell 500 copies of his first volume of essays.After commencing to publish his system of philosophy,Spencer had at the end of fifteen years lost £1200, and wasso afraid that he was ruining himself that he issued a noticeto subscribers announcing that publi

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