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fifteen thousand objects. Thus already his biology and his 
anthropology progress in happy conjunction; for ‘Tylor is 
the best anthropologist in England’. Somewhat inconsis¬ 
tently he proceeds to qualify this estimate. 
‘I have been much surprised to find that, though Comparative Anatomy 
is Moseley’s subject, yet he really knows considerably more concerning 
Anthropology than even Tylor. In fact, Moseley is a very remarkable 
man, and, when brought at all closely into contact with him, you soon 
feel that he is no ordinary man. Of course he has been almost every¬ 
where, and this alone gives a man considerable power if only he keeps 
his eyes open. He was a favourite of Darwin, though of course much 
the latter’s junior, and, like everybody else who ever came near him, 
has the greatest reverence for his “master”.’ 
Yet this admiration for his teacher, so characteristic of 
Oxford which tries to base education on friendship after the 
Greek tradition, is not uncritical. For he goes on: ‘Moseley, 
however, is, I think, too narrow in some ways. He thinks 
science to be the training for everything—business or profes¬ 
sion, and even for politics. One evening we had a long talk 
on this subject, and we agreed to differ.’ 
After a year’s steady work, refreshed by a short trip to the 
Continent, Spencer obtained by open competition a Fellow¬ 
ship at Lincoln College. On the last day of January 1886 
he writes: ‘Just a line to say that I believe I have got the 
Lincoln Fellowship. The actual election by an old custom 
takes place in Chapel to-morrow. It is a relief, and I am 
deeply grateful for the start which it gives me. All through 
the last few years I have met with wonderful good fortune— 
first Owens, then Exeter, then this place with Moseley, and 
lastly this affair now.’ Lincoln is now under the genial 
W. W. Merry, and he and others give young Spencer the 
chance of seeing something of Oxford society. ‘I feel dread¬ 
fully young and junior among these people, but find them 
all extremely kind, and as yet have not come across any Mark 
