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that there was a man on the other side of the Channel who, like him- 

 self, was striving to give the world a philosophy of science. And in 

 fact, from this point of view, Auguste Comte was to the first half of 

 the nineteenth century what Herbert Spencer was to the second half. 



A fuller discussion of the merits and demerits of Spencer's political 

 ethics is also purposely avoided in this place, partly for want of space, 

 partly because it would have to be too critical for the appraisement 

 here proposed, and partly because it has already been attempted, not 

 only by others but by the present writer. ^^ 



The statement has been so frequently made that Mr. Spencer's 

 sociology and his political and economic doctrines do not logically fol- 

 low from his law of cosmic and organic evolution, that something more 

 might naturally be expected here on that point than has been said 

 above as incidental to the discussion of other questions. This subject 

 is, however, too large to be treated here, and would require a separate 

 article. This lack has been partially supplied in other places and to 

 these sources the reader is referred.^^ 



^ " The Political Ethics of Herbert Spencer," Annals of the American 

 Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. IV., January, 1894, pp. 582-619. 

 Publications of the Academy, No. 111. 



^ " Herbert Spencer's Sociology," The Independent, New York, March 31, 

 1904, Vol. LVI., pp. 730-734; Herbert Spencer's Autobiography, Science, N. S., 

 Jime 10, 1904, Vol. XIX., pp. 873-879; "The Sociology of Political Parties," 

 American Journal of Sociology, January, 1908, Vol. XIII., pp. 439-454. 



