1 84 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



called forth a very able criticism by George Roberts, 

 to which Spencer thus refers : 



Thanks for the further press notices which you sent me 

 along with the Boston Evening Transcript. I presume 

 from the initials that the letter is by Mr. Roberts. I read 

 it with much pleasure, and thought it extremely well done. 

 The replies are very much the same as I should have made 

 myself, the only further way in which I might have en- 

 forced the reply being by referring to the chapter on The 

 Rhythm of Motion as being an elaborate statement of that 

 " principle of countermovements " on which the reviewer 

 insists. When you write to Mr. Roberts pray convey to 

 him my thanks for his very efficient defence. 



The following sentence, coming soon after, in an 

 acknowledgment of the publishers' accounts, illus- 

 trates one of Youmans's inveterate habits. I believe 

 one of his chief delights in buying books was to have 

 them to give away : 



I see in the account the item, "seven copies of the 

 Essays sold to Professor Youmans." Surely you have not 

 been throwing away your money on my books to give away ! 

 If there are any presentation copies which you think it well 

 to give, pray always order the Appletons to send them, and 

 debit me with them. 



I cannot close this chapter more appropriately 

 than with an incident clipped from a letter of Christ- 

 mas, 1864: " Henry Carey called in to blow up the 

 Appletons for publishing Spencer's British free-trade 

 doctrines. Spencer was an upstart ; his system would 

 soon die, like Comte's and Mill's. Said W. H. Ap- 

 pleton, ' I can tell you one thing Spencer won't die 

 as long as Youmans lives ! ' ' 



