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THIS is a vigorous and discriminating account of Herbert Spencer's contributions to modern intellectual development. It is written by one who saturated himself with Spencer's doctrines (and read all his works) when on service in the South African War, and has had the endurance to repeat the experience since 1914, with the bitter conviction that if Europe had followed Spencer the present war could never have occurred. “The spirit of Treitschke has triumphed over the spirit of Spencer—the metaphysics of Germany over the common sense of England”.
Herbert Spencer.
By Hugh Elliot. (Makers of the Nineteenth Century Series.) Pp. vi + 330 + 1 portrait. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 6s. net.
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Herbert Spencer . Nature 99, 163 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099163a0
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