154 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



much of his apparent narrowness and intolerance I have 

 found out to be mere bluster. He dined with us the other 



day. 



Saratoga, November 4, i8oj. 



My dear Spencer : When last I wrote you I promised 

 and expected to write again very soon, but the plans I had 

 formed, depending as they did upon seeing many persons, 

 were not so readily executed as I had hoped, and I thought 

 best to delay troubling you with a letter until I could com- 

 municate something definite and satisfactory. My purpose 

 has been, from the beginning, twofold — to circulate your 

 writings as extensively as possible, and to do it in such a 

 manner that you might share the pecuniary results. 



It had been comparatively easy to accomplish the first 

 object unembarrassed by the second. That (which would 

 have been also much easier under usual circumstances) has 

 been made difficult by the state of the times, and so re- 

 fractory have been the elements with which I have had to 

 work that I could not urge the business as I would like to 

 have done. I find satisfaction, however, in the thought 

 that the course which has been taken is perhaps on the 

 whole the best. 



There has been in many minds a helpful progress and 

 ripening of opinion respecting your philosophical views, 

 which makes the present a fitter time for action than would 

 have been any period earlier. As respects writing to you, 

 what I have lost in time I shall now make up in quantity, 

 and must trespass upon your patience, to lay before you 

 with some fullness the present aspect of affairs. 



Some weeks since I urged Mr. William Appleton to re- 

 publish the present volume of the Essays upon the same 

 terms as the Education. He read it and spoke highly of it, 

 but said that by printing it you would gain nothing and he 

 would lose. I replied that the writings of Mr. Spencer had 

 many admirers throughout the country, and that I thought 

 their relations to the author had in them so much of sym- 



