A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, With Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

Although he stands for much that is yet in dispute, there can be no question that at the present time 1892 Herbert Spencer, of all his contemporaries, holds the foremost place in the intellectual world, and through a wider circle than any man now living, and jerhaps than any man of our century, is regarded as a profound, original and authoritative thinker by many indeed as the greatest thinker the world has ever yet seen. So large is the field over which Mr. Spencer swritings have ranged, so many are the special branches of knowledge he has laid under contribution, so diffi ocult to the ordinary mind are the abstractions in which he has dealt and the terminology in which they are couched, that this great reputation is with the large majority of the intelligent men who accept it more a matter of faith than of reason. But this rather adds to than detracts from the popular estimate ;for what to us is vague often seems on that account the greater, and what we have no means of measuring, all the more profound. Nor does Mr. Spencer sstanding as one of the greatest, to many the very greatest, of philosophers, lack substantial basis in the opinions of those deemed competent to gauge intellectual power.
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