AppUtOHS Journal. 



am now al)le to be about, though still lame. I did not 

 write from Winona because I constantly hoped soon to 

 return and be able to speak of biiM 



37 () in;, \V., April 26* 1870. 



M\ Di \K VoUMANS : I was very sorry to hear of your 

 having been so ill. I have long feared that, like many 

 others who are anxious to diffuse a knowledge of the laws 

 of health, you would yourself have to suffer from continu- 

 ously disregarding them. As I sometimes say jokingly to 

 Huxley, apropos of his transgressions, we ought to erase 

 the proverb u Experience makes fools wise," and write in 

 place of it " Experience does not even make wise men wise." 

 I hope, at any rate, that henceforth you will not so lavishly 

 expend your energies for the benefit of others, taking no 

 care of yourself. It is bad policy in all respects. A man 

 who gives his work gratis is sure to be undervalued. 



The lively interest in Mr. Spencer's philosophy felt 

 by a few Americans and their zealous efforts in his 

 behalf had touched him deeply, and for some time he 

 had been thinking of dedicating his System of Philoso- 

 phy to his American friends. The following letter 

 inclosed the draft of such a dedication : 



37 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, W., October ig, 1870. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS : The inclosed will show you my 

 reason for writing again before you replied to my last. 



I dare say you and other Americans may have wondered 

 why I did not take this step before. The fact is that I 

 did contemplate it at the time when the second edition of 

 First Principles was in the press; but I was eventually de- 

 terred by the thought that it might seem unfair to those 

 English friends who had, shortly before that time, shown 

 their sympathy by the steps they took. On thinking the 

 matter over of late, however, I have come to the conclusion 



