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of the immediate results of this interview was the 

 beginning of my own correspondence and intimate 

 friendship with Spencer. And from that time 

 forth it always seemed as if, whenever any of the 

 good or lovely things of life came to my lot, some- 

 how or other Edward Youmans was either the 

 cause of it, or at any rate intimately concerned 

 with it. The sphere of his unselfish goodness was 

 so wide and its quality so potent that one could 

 not come into near relations with him without be- 

 coming in all manner of unsuspected ways strength- 

 ened and enriched. 



In the autumn of 1865 we were dismayed by 

 the announcement that Spencer would no longer 

 be able to go on issuing his works. In London 

 they were published at his own expense and risk, 

 and those books which now yield a handsome profit 

 did not then pay the cost of making them. By 

 the summer of 1865 there was a balance of .1100 

 against Spencer, and 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 pecun- 

 iary responsibility of continuing the publication ; 

 but this, Mr. Spencer, while deeply affected by 

 such noble sympathy, would not hear of. He con- 

 sented, however, with great reluctance, to the 



