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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Spencer-smashing at Washington. At 



a meeting of the Washington Society for 

 Philosophical Inquiry held January 23, 1894, 

 the Rev. Dr. Momerie, of London, read a 

 paper on Agnosticism, consisting chiefly of 

 a criticism of Mr. Herbert Spencer and a de- 

 fense of the current dualistic conception of 

 the soul as the thinking personality or ego 

 considered as distinct from and independent 

 of the body. The paper was discussed by 

 Dr. W. T. Harris and Mr. Lester F. Ward. 

 Mr. Ward's remarks were as follows : " While 

 Dr. Momerie was reading his able paper I 

 could not help thinking to what a remark- 

 able degree the views of Herbert Spencer 

 have become the object of philosophical dis- 

 cussion and public attack. To judge from 

 the opposition to him in all directions one 

 would suppose that his entire system of phi- 

 losophy was unsound and worthless. No 

 book, no philosophic essay, no form of dis- 

 cussipn of any question is complete that 

 does not score him at some point. This so- 

 ciety since its organization a year ago has 

 been engaged in an almost uninterrupted 

 onslaught upon his doctrines. Dr. E. L. 

 Youmans, who, when living, was the great 

 American disciple of Spencer, used to char- 

 acterize those who even at that date had be- 

 gun to inveigh against him by the name of 

 ' Spencer-smashers,' and since his death the 

 business of Spencer-smashing has continued 

 to increase ; but, strange as it may seem, 

 notwithstanding all this opposition the great 

 philosopher will not down. I am not my- 

 self innocent of the charge of Spencer- 

 smashing, and I thought these remarks 



