390 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



planation, to which he would not listen. For a mo- 

 ment he so far forgot himself as to impute mean 

 pecuniary motives to Spencer and Youmans an im- 

 putation which he soon felt obliged to withdraw. 

 The effect upon Spencer was to make him telegraph 

 at once to the Appletons to stop the sale of the book, 

 destroy the plates, and debit the loss to his account. 

 As matters had taken such a shape, Youmans could 

 hardly do otherwise than suppress the book out of 

 consideration for Spencer's feelings. He published, 

 however, in The Popular Science Monthly for Au- 

 gust, 1885, an article Concerning the Suppressed 

 Book, which is here reprinted in full,* and in which, 

 as every candid reader will admit, his own conduct is 

 amply justified. One cannot wonder that Mr. Harri- 

 son objected to a form of publication in which his own 

 articles and Mr. Spencer's appeared side by side ! 



The last time that I ever saw my best and dearest 

 friend was at his home in New York in March, 1886, 

 and for the first time there came over me the chill 

 feeling that I must soon lose him. To accustom my- 

 self to the thought of the world without him was not 

 easy it has not yet become easy ; but I could not de- 

 ceive myself, like the " everybody "to whom he alludes 

 in the following letter. Dr. Thomas, by direction of 

 the Penn Club, had invited him to Philadelphia as the 

 special guest of the club. His reply was : 



247 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, April 25, 1886. 

 MY DEAR OLD FRIEND : I have to thank you for your 

 very kind letter of April 8th, with its pleasant, not to say 



* See below, pp. 562-583. 



