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“principles of ethics. 
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“ The Ethics of Social Life : Negative Beneficence;” and Part VI., 
“ The Ethics of Social Life : Positive Beneficence.” And he further 
tells us that “ the writing of these parts he hopes to complete 
before ability ends ; being especially anxious to do this because, in 
the absence of them, the divisions at present published will leave 
on nearly all minds a very erroneous impression respecting the 
general tone of Evolutionary Ethics. In its full scope the moral 
system to be set forth unites sternness with kindness ; but thus far 
attention has been drawn almost wholly to the sternness. Extreme 
misapprehensions and misstatements ” (says Mr. Spencer) “ have 
since resulted.” 
It goes without saying that the friends of Mr. Spencer in 
Birmingham, and the still more numerous friends and admirers of 
the great thinker all over the world, look forward most anxiously to 
the appearance of the final volume of “ The Principles of Ethics,” 
and their cordial good wishes go out to him in his persistent labours 
pursued under the pressure of failing health, accompanied by their 
earnest hopes that he may complete not only this volume, but also 
the few remaining parts of “ The Principles of Sociology ’ yet 
unwritten, and thus finish his opus magnum —the unification of all 
knowledge as exhibited in the “ Synthetic Philosophy ”—an 
achievement unparalleled in the history of human thought. 
Postscript, 27tli April, 1893.—It is most interesting and grati¬ 
fying to record that on correcting the proofs of this address to-day 
(which is Mr. Spencer’s 73rd birthday), I have received from him 
the 2nd Vol. of “ The Principles of Ethics,” which completes the 
work. I hope before long to refer to this highly important 
volume. 
NOTES ON THE “FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE.” 
BY J. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. 
(Continued from page 70.) 
Angelica sylvestris, Linn, 
(4.) Near Newbold-on-Avou, 1831, Baxter, MS. 
May, 1893. 
