" Destined to take rank as one of the two or three 

 most remarkable self- portrayals of a human life ever 

 committed to posterity /' 



Franklin H. Giddings, LL.D., in the Independent. 



An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer. 



With Illustrations. Many of them from the 

 Author's Own Drawings. Cloth, 8vo. Gilt Top. 

 Two vols. in a box, $5.50 net. Postage, 40 cents 

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"It is rare, indeed, that a man who has so profoundly influenced the 

 intellectual development of his age and generation has found time to 

 record the history of his own life. And this Mr. Spencer has clone so 

 simply, so frankly, and with such obvious truth, that it is not surprising 

 that Huxley is reported as having said, after reading it in manuscript, 

 that it reminded him of the ' Confessions ' of Rousseau, freed from every 

 objectionable taint." New York Globe. 



" As interesting as fiction ? There never was a novel so interesting 

 as Herbert Spencer's 'An Autobiography'." New York Herald. 



" It is rich in suggestion and observation, of wide significance and 

 appeal in the sincerity, the frankness, the lovableness of its human note." 



New York Mail and Express. 



"The book, as a whole, makes Spencer's personality a reality for 

 us, where heretofore it has been vaguer than his philosophical abstrac- 

 tions.*' -John White Chadwick in Current Literature. 



" In all the literature of its class there is nothing like it. It bears 

 the same relationship to autobiographical productions as Boswell's 'Life 

 of Johnson ' bears to biographies." Philadelphia Press. 



" This book will always be of importance, for Herbert Spencer was 

 a great and original thinker, and his system of philosophy has bent the 

 thought of a generation, and will keep a position of commanding interest." 



Joseph O'Connor in the New York Times 



" Planned and wrought for the purpose of tracing the events of his 

 life and the growth of his opinions, his autobiography does more than 

 that. It furnished us, half unconsciously, no doubt, a more vj v id por- 

 traiture of his peculiarities than any outsider could possibly provide. 

 We pity his official biographer! Little can be left for him. Here we 

 have Spencer in habit as he w r as." New York Lvening Foil. 



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