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course of twelve lectures annually, for a salary of five 

 hundred dollars. Some time before he had been of- 

 fered the presidency of this college, and had declined 

 it. He now accepted Dr. Bellows's proposal, and 

 gave his course of lectures there in 1866. Then the 

 pressure of other duties obliged him to resign. 



In that autumn of 1865 we were all dismayed by 

 the announcement that Mr. Spencer would no longer 

 be able to go on issuing his series of philosophical 

 works setting forth the doctrine of evolution. In Lon- 

 don they were published at his own expense and risk, 

 and despite the earnest efforts made in America the 

 state of the accounts was very discouraging. His 

 property was too small to admit of his going on and 

 losing at such a rate. As soon as this was known, John 

 Stuart Mill begged to be allowed to assume the entire 

 pecuniary responsibility of continuing the publication ; 

 but this Mr. Spencer, while deeply affected by such 

 noble sympathy, would not hear of. He consented, 

 however, with great reluctance, to the attempt of 

 Huxley and Lubbock and other friends to increase 

 artificially the list of subscribers by inducing people 

 to take the work just in order to help support it. But 

 after several months the sudden death of Mr. Spen- 

 cer's father added something to his means of support, 

 and he thereupon withdrew his consent to this ar- 

 rangement, and determined to go on publishing as 

 before, and bearing the loss. 



But, as soon as the first evil tidings reached Amer- 

 ica, Youmans determined to avert the disaster, if pos- 

 sible. As the needful aid was not to be had through 

 any available accession to his list of subscribers to the 

 serial, he made up his mind that a sum of money must 



