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other, and thus his capacity for usefuhiess Avas iiuich 

 increased. 



When Mr. Spencer's book on ''Education" failed to find 

 favor in Boston, the Appletons took it, and thus presently 

 secured the management of the philosophical series. This 

 brought Mr. Youmans into permanent relations with Mr. 

 Spencer and his work. In 1861 Mr. Youmans was married, 

 and in the course of the following year made a journey in 

 Europe with his wife. It was now that he became person- 

 ally acquainted with Mr. Spencer, and found him quite as 

 interesting and admirable as his books. Friendships were 

 also begun with Huxley and other foremost men of science. 

 From more than one of these men I have heard the 

 warmest expressions of personal affection for Mr. Youmans, 

 and of keen appreciation of the aid that they have 

 obtained in innumerable ways from his intelligent and 

 enthusiastic sympathy. But no one else got so large a 

 measure of this support as Mr. Spencer. As fast as his 

 books were republished, Mr. Youmans wrote reviews of 

 them, and by no means in the usual perfunctory way j his 

 reviews and notices were turned out by the score, and 

 scattered about in the magazines and newspapers where 

 they would do the most good. Whenever he found anothe'r 

 writer who could be pressed into the service, he would give 

 him Spencer's books, kindle him with a spark from his own 

 magnificent enthusiasm, and set him to writing for the 

 press. The most indefatigable vender of wares was never 

 more ruthlessly persistent in advertising for lucre's sake 

 than Edward Youmans in preaching in a spirit of the 

 purest disinterestedness the gospel of Evolution. As long 

 as he lived, Mr. Spencer had upon this side of the Atlantic 

 an alter ego ever on the alert with vision like that of a 

 hawk for the slightest chance to promote his interests and 

 those of his system of thought. 



Among the allies thus enlisted at that early time were Mr. 

 George Eipley and Kev. Henry Ward Beecher, both of 

 whom did good service, in their different ways, in awakening 

 public interest in the doctrine of Evolution. In those days 

 of the Civil War it was especially hard to keep up the list 

 of subscribers in an abstruse philosophical publication of 

 apparently interminable length. ]V[r. Youmans now and 

 then found it needful to make a journey in the interests of 

 the work, and it was on one of tliese occasions, in Novem- 



