LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



It was some days before he could get out, and in his 

 sorry plight, bandaged so his face was scarcely visi- 

 ble, Spencer found him. "Herbert, do you believe in 

 the actuality of matter?" was his first question. 

 Both Tyndall and Huxley made application to the 

 University of Toronto for positions as teachers of sci- 

 ence; but Toronto looked askance, as all pioneer peo- 

 ple do, at men whose college careers have been mostly 

 confined to giving college absent treatment. 

 Herbert Spencer avowed again and again that Tyndall 

 was the greatest teacher he ever knew or heard of 

 inspiring the pupil to discover for himself to do to 

 become, rather than imparting prosy facts of doubtful 

 pith and moment. But Herbert Spencer not being eli- 

 gible to join a university club himself, was possibly 

 not competent to judge. Anyway, England was not so 

 finical as Canada, and so she gained what Canada 

 lost Jt> & 



'N 1872, Tyndall visited the United States, 

 and gave lectures in most of the principal 

 cities, and at all of the great colleges. He 

 was a most fascinating speaker, fluent, di- 

 rect, easy, and his whole discourse was 

 well seasoned with humor. 

 Whenever he spoke the auditorium was taxed to its 

 utmost, and his reception was very cordial, even in 

 colleges that were considered as exceedingly orthodox. 

 Q Possibly, some good people who invited him to 

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