and he also knew that his salvation depended upon 

 getting away from and beyond the narrow confines of 

 their beliefs and habits. Because a thing helps you in 

 a certain period of your education, is no reason you 

 should feed upon it forevermore. This way lies ar- 

 rested development. 



Life, like heat, is a mode of motion, and progress con- 

 sists in discarding a good thing when you find a better. 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



OCCASIONALLY Herbert Spencer used to 

 spend a Sunday afternoon with the Car- 

 lyles at their modest home in Chelsea. At 

 such times Jeannie Welsh would usually 

 manage to pilot the conversational craft 

 along smooth waters, but if she were not 

 present, hot arguments would follow, and finally a 

 point would be reached when Carlyle and Spencer 

 would simply sit and glare at each other. 

 "After such scenes I always thought less of two per- 

 sons Carlyle and myself," said Spencer "and so for 

 many years I cautiously avoided Cheyne Row." 

 Then there was another man Spencer avoided, al- 

 though for a different reason; this individual was John 

 Tyndall Jt> & 



On the death of Tyndall, Spencer wrote, "There has 

 just died the greatest teacher of modern times: a man 

 who stimulated thought in old and young every one 

 he met as no one else I ever knew did. Once we 

 went together for a much needed rest, to the Lake Dis- 



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