Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — SPENCER'S LIFE ENDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPENCER'S LIFE ENDS.

Famous f dentist end Philosopher Dies at His Home in Knglsnd. Herbert Spencer, the famous author, died Tucsduy morning at/bis home in Brighton, His health had been fniling for some months. Herbert Spencer, whose work as scientist, philosopher and nutlior gave him front rank among the great men of his time, was 83 years old, hpving been born at Derby, England, in 1820. At 17 years of age he began life ns a civil engineer, but abandoned it after eight years, and a/ter having contributed several papers to the literature of liis profession. When 22 years old, in 1842, he published n series of letters on the

proper sphere of government, and when, in 1845, he gave up civil engineering lie adopted literary work as a profession. From 1848 to 1852 lie was on the Economist, a Loudon paper, in which "Social Statistics,” perhaps his most popular work, was published in the serinl form. His contributions to the Westminster and other quarterly reviews have been frequent. In ISGO he began his great work on "A System of Synthetic Philosophy,” which was published in ten volumes and took forty years to fiuisii. Mr. Spencer was never married. For many years', to the end of his life, lie made his home in Brighton, on the south coast of England. He enred little for society, his only recreation being salmon and trout fishing.

HERBERT SPENCER.