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CONSTANCE C. W. NADEN. 
May, 1890 . 
On settling down in town after her Indian tour, she 
resided in apartments, first at 14, Half Moon Street, after¬ 
wards at 19, Old Quebec Street, for a time, and subsequently 
purchased, in February, 1889, an elegant house, No. 114, Park 
Street, Grosvenor Square, in the fitting up of which she took 
much interest, and her affectionate disposition and intellectual 
power soon attracted a circle of cultured and like-minded 
friends. Of these days, so full of brightness and hope, she 
thus writes to a friend:—“ I am writing, and buying furni¬ 
ture, and going to lectures, and indulging sometimes in mild 
dissipation, and learning the value of money—I mean how 
far it won't go—which I never had the slightest idea of 
before. It is all very interesting.” She scarcely does herself 
justice in this respect, for I am informed that she had the 
command of other private means in the lifetime of her grand¬ 
parents, out of which the cost of her publications was defrayed, 
as well as her expenses of travel. Philosophy still had 
the greatest fascination for her: she became a member 
of the Aristotelian Society, and was much valued by 
her fellow-members, and took an active part in its 
meetings ; indeed, a paper of hers on “ Rational and 
Empirical Ethics” was, since her decease, vicariously 
read at this Society only a few weeks ago. That she was in 
her element in this learned Society, and could hold her own, 
is evidenced by an extract from a letter addressed to me, 
December 22nd, 1888 :—“ I had a little discussion with- 
[naming a distinguished evolutionist] the other day at the 
Aristotelian Society, to which I belong, and made him confess 
that he didn’t know his ‘ Data of Ethics.’ The point was, 
whether Herbert Spencer acknowledges the influence of the 
religious, as well as of the political and social controls, in the 
evolution of the moral control.” She was also a member of 
the Royal Institution. In the summer of the following year, 
writing from Ilkley Wells, where she had gone for rest, she 
told me that she had written “ a reply to Mr. Lilly’s libel on 
Utilitarianism in the ‘ Fortnightly,”’ but from what she said 
in a subsequent letter, this seems to have been too long for 
publication. Her main energies, however, were devoted to 
an important work on “ Evolutionary Ethics,” the nucleus 
of which was the short paper read before the Sociological 
Section on the “ Data of Ethics,” previously referred to, and on 
the 20th July last, she thus wrote to me, in reply to a letter :— 
“ My book gets on slowly, but I hope surely. I cannot say 
when it will be finished, though it won’t be a ‘ mag. op. ’ at all, 
for ideas have an uncomfortable habit of developing as one 
writes, and of requiring alterations in their clothing.” 
