322 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



A restless anxiety to push all tasks to completion, a 

 natural buoyancy which for the greater part of the 

 time ignored the evidences of ill-health, united to keep 

 him at the oar when mind and body should have had 

 relaxation and rest. His was the case of the man wise 

 for others, not wise for himself. Next year, 1874, no 

 sooner did his health somewhat improve than he be- 

 gan to carry out his project, long entertained, of a 

 Cyclopaedia of Household Science, organizing a corps 

 of investigators and writers. His direction and super- 

 vision of their work entailed new burdens of responsi- 

 bility and toil. Yet never was he too busy or too 

 weary to serve the cause of evolution, or to elucidate 

 the true position of its philosopher. On the 5th of 

 June he delivered a lecture before the New York 

 Liberal (Positivist) Club on Herbert Spencer and the 

 Doctrine of Evolution. This lecture appeared in the 

 Monthly for the following November, and is reprinted 

 as an appendix to Mr. Frothingham's translation of 

 Cazelles's Outlines of Evolution.* 



In the autumn of 1874 overwork entailed its accus- 

 tomed penalty ; his health again became poor, and his 

 eyes were so much affected that he had to submit to 

 curtailment in both reading and writing. The next 

 year the interests of the International Scientific Series 

 required his presence in Europe. While abroad he 

 had his cyclopaedia constantly in mind, and gathered 

 together many hints and much material for it. He 

 examined new applications of science in the house- 

 hold ; investigated sanitary appliances and the newest 

 methods of heating, lighting, and ventilation. Con- 

 vinced that among practical arts cooking was only 



* This very able and important paper is given in full below, pp. 502-551. 



