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should have been such an unrecking, _outré_, and enthusiastic follower of Herbert Spencer's philosophy, or that part of it given in the
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First Principles. It is told of an English wit that when asked if he was willing to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles, he promptly replied,
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Oh, yes, forty of them if you wish. Hearn was similarly minded--minus the fun,--and most unphilosophically he went into utter captivity, seemingly, to the unphilosophic philosopher. And yet the spirit of Spencer's
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First Principles was in reality as different from that of Hearn as was the spirit of St. Francis from that, for instance, of Cecil Rhodes. The contradiction and ludicrousness of this mismating is so easy of explanation that the incongruity is missed. The forest is not seen because of the trees. Hearn did not have true scientific instinct, animus, or ability. Neither had Herbert Spencer--so far as his
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First Principles is concerned, and as regards an improved inductive method as shown in the
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Psychology,
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Biology, etc., Hearn, according to a letter, found he could not interest himself enough to read one of these later works. The clear and well-drilled scientific intellect admits that if Spencer had not published his
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First Principles, but had gathered the facts of his later works before publishing an epitomizing Last Principles, the matter would have been as differently phased as night and day. Spencer cared infinitely more for the systematization than he did for the facts systematized. Reduced to its last analysis, the
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First Principles