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 "Conservatives 

 are wrong" or the "Liberals are wrong." 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. " Theological conservatism, like political 

 conservatism, has thus an all-important function. 

 It prevents the constant advance from being too 

 rapid" 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 " philanthropic energy 

 with philosophic calm." 



