THE PHILOSOPHIC TEMPER 



swears by heredity or variation as alone beneficent, 

 so no philosophic student, now that Spencer has 

 taught us, can declare that the &quot;Conservatives 

 are wrong&quot; or the &quot;Liberals are wrong.&quot; Both 

 are necessary; each alone would be maleficent. 

 The force of heredity or conservatism gets us no 

 further; the force of variation or liberalism is al 

 most as likely to lose as to win In media tutissi- 

 mus ibis. &quot; Theological conservatism, like political 

 conservatism, has thus an all-important function. 

 It prevents the constant advance from being too 

 rapid&quot; for stability. 



In another work Spencer has dealt exhaustively 

 and finally with the various forms of bias educa 

 tional, class, theological, anti- theological, political, 

 patriotic, and anti - patriotic. To be freed from 

 all these is to have completed the preliminary 

 stages for becoming a philosopher; the freedom 

 is to be purchased only by intellectual effort; and 

 thus may be attained that rare combination of 

 irresistible zeal with true toleration which Spencer 

 has described as the union of &quot; philanthropic energy 

 with philosophic calm.&quot; 



