Herbert Spencer / by J. Arthur Thomson.

  • John Arthur Thomson
Date:
1906
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Credit: Herbert Spencer / by J. Arthur Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    physical and biological, psychological and ethical, social and religious. And this also is conceded, that his life was signalised by absolute consecration to the pursuit of truth, by magnanimous disinterestedness as to rewards, by a resolute struggle against almost overwhelming difficulties, and by an entire fearless- ness in delivering the message which he believed the Unknown had given him for the good of the world. In an age of specialism he held up the banner of the Unity of Science, and he actually completed, so far as he could complete, the great task of his life— greater than most men have even dreamed of—that of applying the evolution-formula to everything knowable. He influenced thought so largely, he inspired so many disciples, he left so many enduring works—enduring as seed-plots, if not also as achieve- ments—that his death, writ large, was immortality.
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