HERBERT SPENCER 17 
his name famous. Although his own countrymen did not at first 
grasp the importance of this work, a nei ghbouring nation, quicker to do 
so, made it a factor in the education of their race. Every Elementary 
Schoolmaster in France has to include the French translation of 
Spencer’s “ Education” in his curriculum and this decision was 
arrived at by a vote in the Colleges of 25 to one dissentient. 
In this country alone over 150,000 copies of this one work have 
been sold ; and also an enormous circulation in the United States. 
It has been translated into over 30 different languages and 
dialects. 
A learned Jewish Professor told me that many Jews con- 
sidered Volume vii. of Spencer’s Descriptive Sociology on ‘“ The 
Hebrews and Pheenicians,”’ one of the most valuable histories of 
the Jewish. race. 
Perhaps his works appeal comparatively to the Jew, but that 
Jew is only relatively so, as throughout the civilized world earnest 
students are to be found who look upon the name of Herbert Spencer 
with the deepest reverence, and indirectly the world is indebted to 
him now and for all time. 
All his works are translated into French, most of them into 
German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, some into Roumanian, 
Greek, Hungarian, Bohemian, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, 
Japanese, Chinese, Hindostani, Sanskrit. 
Although I have held his ashes in my hands, and placed them 
in the granite chamber at Highgate Cemetery, his personality remains 
as strong as ever. The lessons I, as a boy, learned from him and 
through him—lessons which his own life taught, as he never 
wavered from following them himself—have helped me greatly, and, 
as Professor Hudson says :---‘‘ The better one knew him the more 
one grew to understand his quiet strength, steadiness of ethical 
purpose, and unflinching courage, the purity of his motives, his 
rigid adherence to righteousness and truth, and his exquisite sense 
of justice in all things.” 
To the student all the world over, his works will for many 
years keep his name associated with admiration and respect, and 
“the name of this great Victorian will go down to posterity linked 
with one of the noblest efforts of the human will that modern history 
recalls.” 
