the pen carries just as severe a penalty as the misuse LITTLE 

 of the hoe. And it is a great satisfaction to realize that JOURNEYS 

 the thinking world has reached a point where these 

 propositions do not have to be proven. 

 There was a time when Spencer regretted that he had 

 not been sent to college, instead of being set to work. 

 But later he came to regard his experience as a sur- 

 veyor and practical engineer as a very precious and 

 necessary part of his education. 



John Tyndall and Alfred Russel Wallace had an al- 

 most identical experience. In childhood John attended 

 the village school for six months of the year, and the 

 rest of the time helped his parents, as children of poor 

 people do. When nineteen he went to work carrying 

 a chain in a surveying corps. Steady attention to the 

 business in hand brought its sure reward, and in a 

 few years he had charge of the squad, and was given 

 the duty of making maps and working out complex 

 calculations in engineering. In mathematics he espec- 

 ially excelled. 



Five years in the employ of the Irish Ordnance Sur- 

 vey and three years in practical railroad building, and 

 Tyndall got the socialistic bee in his bonnet. He re- 

 signed a good position to take part in bringing about 

 the millennium. 



That he helped the old world along toward the ideal 

 there is no doubt; but Tyndall is dead and Jerusalem 

 is not yet. When the rule of the barons was broken, 

 and the stage of individualism or competition "was 

 ushered in, men said, "Lo! The time is at hand and 



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