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Neither in the lines of the face nor in its colour, is there any such sign of constitutional derangement as would be expected. Contrariwise, I am usually supposed to be about ten years younger than I am
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Spencer's closing years, Prof. Hudson writes,
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His days were vacant and his nights a weariness; he had outlived most of his friends and was lonely; and
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He saw his political advice disregarded, and on all sides an exuberant growth of the socialistic organisations which he had spent himself in criticising.
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He saw, too, with profound sorrow, unmistakable signs everywhere of reaction in religion, politics, society. The recrudescence of militarism, the development of a sordidly materialistic spirit throughout the modern nations and their abandonment of the principles of sanity and political righteousness--all these things cast a very black shadow over his declining path. I do not wonder that, as he looked back over his magnificent life-work, his mind should have been darkened by the doubt as to whether some of the truths, to which he attached the greatest value, might not after all have been set forth in vain (
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Fortnightly Review,