230 HERBERT SPENCER’S SERVICE TO RELIGION 
nal importance, however, to which I may at least call 
attention fora moment. It is a matter which has long 
since taken deep hold of my mind, and I am glad to 
have a chance to say something about it on so fitting 
an occasion. We have met here this evening to do 
homage to a dear and noble teacher and friend, and 
it is well that we should choose this time to recall the 
various aspects of the immortal work by which he has 
earned the gratitude of a world. The work which 
Herbert Spencer has done in organizing the differ- 
ent departments of human knowledge, so as to present 
the widest generalizations of all the sciences in a new 
and wonderful light, as flowing out of still deeper and 
wider truths concerning the universe as a whole; the 
great number of profound generalizations which he 
has established incidentally to the pursuit of this 
main object; the endlessly rich and_ suggestive 
thoughts which he has thrown out in such profusion 
by the wayside all along the course of this great phil- 
osophical enterprise —all this work is so manifest 
that none can fail to recognize it. It is work of the 
caliber of that which Aristotle and Newton did; 
though coming in this latter age, it as far surpasses 
their work in its vastness of performance as the rail- 
way surpasses the sedan chair, or as the telegraph sur- 
passes the carrier-pigeon. But it is not of this side 
of our teacher’s work that I wish to speak, but of a 
side of it that has, hitherto, met with less general 
recognition. 
There are some people who seem to think that it 
is not enough that Mr. Spencer should have made all 
these priceless contributions to human knowledge, but 
actually complain of him for not giving us a complete 
