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who did not see how they could openly displace those who were 

 rendering such public services, formed another Committee : 

 and then proposed that the two should form a joint " Social 

 Science and Sanitary Association.' 7 This was carried. "The 

 meeting then resolved itself into the first meeting of the new 

 Society. As the basis of this was the payment of a dollar, 

 Dr. Carpenter tendered the first payment, and was followed by 

 the other gentlemen present. Most of the active members of 

 the old Society were elected to office in the new \ but of these 

 Dr Carpenter, Dr. Larocque, and (subsequently) M. P. Regan, 

 Esq., declined to serve." 



Philip wrote to me (December 17, 1873): — " When our 

 Association was extinguished two years ago, nominally by a 

 larger Association, that same did not meet once, even in Com- 

 mittee.* The public ridicule was too strong against them." 

 He says in the same letter : "As I am not called upon in any 

 way to be a public man, and have private work enough clearly 

 set before me, I try to do as much as I can of that, and leave 

 the rest alone. My scientific work is of a kind that no one 

 else (humanly speaking) can do : i.e. to embody outwardly for 

 future students the knowledge I have been accumulating in my 

 life. In other works — temperance, education, sanitary, etc. — 

 there are plenty of others in the field." He soon heard a sum- 

 mons to the field, which he could not disobey. But we must 

 now return to 1868. 



In that year, he found that it would be necessary to leave 

 the house which he rented from the nuns, who were about to 

 build a hospital on the adjoining ground ; and he purchased 

 land in the same street, a little further from the city. " No one 

 here doubts," he tells his sister Mary (March 19, 1868), "that 

 I do wisely in turning my remaining cash into a school-house. 

 We have got it all nicely planned, so as to turn it into two dwell- 

 ings, if we give up school ; and there is plenty of land behind, 

 on which I could build a cottage for old age, and live on the 

 rents of the two front houses. We shall begin to build as soon 



* It at length declared its inability to work, by returning the subscrip- 

 tion-money to its members. 



