CHAPTER XI. 



POPULAR EDUCATION, AND OTHER MATTERS. 

 1866-1868. Age^ 45-47- 



After disposing of the Spencer affair, Youmans 

 devoted all his energies to the work of completing 

 and publishing the collection of essays entitled The 

 Culture demanded by Modern Life. His chief ob- 

 ject in this third visit to England was to bring out 

 this long-projected book ^ under peculiarly favour- 

 able conditions in London. From time to time he 

 had read able essa3'S and addresses bearing on this 

 topic, but they had been published in ephemeral jour- 

 nals or shelved in volumes of Transactions. He 

 now proceeded to carry out his plan of publishing a 

 selection of such essays by the most eminent writers 

 of the day, with an introduction by himself, setting 

 forth the subject in its widest relations. While en- 

 gaged in this work he came into personal contact with 

 a good many members of the College of Preceptors, 

 and was invited to give them a lecture upon some 

 topic in which they were all directly interested. He 

 chose for his subject The Scientific Study of Human 

 Nature, and after delivering the lecture he inserted it 

 among the essays in his book.f A pleasant account of 



* It is mentioned in his first letter to Mr. Spencer, Feb. 23, iS5o ; 

 see above, p. 106. f See below, pp. 451-485. 



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