CHAPTER III 



GREAT MEN, AS THE TRUE CAUSE OF PROGRESS 



IT is evident that an error of the kind now in The ignoring 

 question does not represent the carelessness of the h^SSLi is 

 untrained thinker. It is nothing if not deliberate ; adeli be rate 



o ' procedure. 



and indeed Mr. Spencer admits that it is altogether L^ us *** how 



. 1-1 ' l * s defended. 



m opposition to the opinions which men naturally 



hold. Accordingly, the arguments by which he and 



his followers justify it, and have actually imposed it 



on all the sociological thinkers of their generation, 



require, before we reject them, to be examined with Let us examine 



the utmost care. dlLST"^. s 



Let us then turn our attention once again to the 

 grounds on which Mr. Spencer refuses to admit the 

 great or exceptional man as a true factor in the 

 production of social change. If the reader will 

 reflect upon the account that has been already given 

 of Mr. Spencer's arguments in connection with this He defends u 

 point, he will find that Mr. Spencer rejects the m 

 great man for two reasons,-, which are not only ( t ) by saying 

 distinct, but are, when interpreted closely, not ^nd'oefn^J 

 entirely consistent with each other. One of these P* 11 * do what 



he seems to 



reasons is that the great, or exceptional man does do = 



