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common intelligence and quite imacquainted with the subject you 

 sought to explain. You would then stop and think by what 

 handling or illustration the view, so clear to you, could be brought 

 into his apprehension. I am speaking from the Popular Science 

 standpoint about a deficiency which mai-ks many of our scientific 

 writers; generally, the deeper and more thoi'ough their science 

 the poorer is their power of exposition. Excuse me for throwing out 

 these suggestions, but with your unusual ability of statement and 

 command of appropriate language, if you could study the art of 

 getting at the mind of the multitude, as a dramatist has to study 

 it in elaborating his points with reference to their effect upon 

 theatre-goers, you could do very important and increasingly 

 needed work in the field of popular and scientific education. . . . 



Ever and truly yours, E. L. Youmans. 



''Mr. George lies, Montreal.''^ 



Dr. D. H. Cochran : 



Dr. Cochran, President of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 

 wrote as follows, in response to an invitation to speak : 



"E. L. Youmans was my very dear friend. There are very few 

 men whom I more respected and loved, and I exceedingly regret 

 that I am unable to hear Mr. Fiske's paper and the tributes that 

 will be paid to his memory and worth." 



Kev. John W. Chadwick: 



I will not go into the pulpit, for I think it must enjoy the 

 fumigation which it has received this evening at the hands of 

 laymen. I knew Prof. Youmans rather as a free-trader than as 

 an evolutionist probably because I usually met him at the house 

 of our friend Richard Henry Manning, who was a good evolution- 

 ist but was very far gone as a protectionist, and needed light 

 particularly on that subject. It was a characteristic of Mr. 

 Youmans to give light where it was needed, and therefore he 

 talked free-trade to Mr. Manning. 



I am very glad that it has been our good fortune to have Mr. 

 Fiske in this place, to deliver this lecture on Prof. Youmans. 

 And I wish to express my own indebtedness to Mr. Fiske who 

 in his "Cosmic Philosophy" has made what is to my mind a 

 clearer statement of the principles of Mr. Spencer's philosophy 

 than Mr. Spencer has made in his own books. All who have any 

 acquaintance with my sermons know that I have made great use 

 of Mr. Fiske's works, by way of illustration and otherwise, for 

 many years past. There are few writers whose thought has been 

 so fruitful to my mind. 



Mr. Fiske: 



I am greatly moved by the words of Mr. Chadwick, and glad to 

 know that my work has proved suggestive to his own thought. 



I notice but one point in the remarks made here this evening 

 that appears to require correction. I cannot think that the term 

 "materialist" can properly be applied to Mr. Youmans. It is 

 true that neither he nor Mr. Spencer have formulated a distinct 

 set of views on theology. They were both kept so busy in estab- 



