MR HERBERT SPENCER'S PHILOSOPHY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3432, 30 December 1885, Page 4

MR HERBERT SPENCER'S PHILOSOPHY.

(Daily Tefegraph) V JJ. Qtbid Oltinsw, who bu lately been rt»riei»iß« at trr«»S lenetb and io a *e*y able mann#r Sir Hcrb«»t Spencer*# new work, " Tht Man rnim tbi State," In the esioasi of the Journal d« Dtfbata, • hm rs««W«d an interesting letter from j |Jw aatbor oo the euKjiCt nf which ho hu tndid. After complimenting M. Gabriel -OtanM co llw way io which be has IndU tbe qrnttes, Mr Herbert Vpmmr goes oo to isy: 'The ideas of lliebocfc are. I beHc*e, aa conch at Taritnco with the ideas enrrent hi France among •II parties that 1 fesr very little eympotby vilf U fait, lbs ooly respect in which y©«r rrrietr docs not qnits trnly cowrey my qpfnfaos fa thai, white estting fsrth m of the fostering of the inferior by State, yon do not imply that I ncogpiee the legitimacy of aid ■Jtto by the aopsrier to the Inferior when R la gfwn sohmtarOy, "id espe daily when it isgfvao IndiridosDy. Wbttteogfwnand It dees net coca* witwn tbe limits of State authority to praract it faaa being given. I hold ftsl, oa the swsgs, mors food <>.«« lua vill bs done, ainoe, in the first •pjaem, there it s ealtiratioo of the eymcathies: and. is ths aeeood place, when st&fciHaodhactfr by anperior to inferior, U wiUhabitMlly bs with kpowlsdgs of eartfeafer cuii nd f tndct bcfcbj tlie raatrunt that antes from that knowledge, sod ths tsatcafnt that arises when the coat of string the aid i« £nctlr fait initead of betes felt thzoogb tuxes m an indatinct way. II men'a aympsthies are left to «rsrk o«t MtonQr, without legal inaira* mentality, 1 hold that ths genets! rault

Willi b«. that .tte.Morion will bo sufficiently helped adequately to alleri*te their niaeoriML but will not be sufficiently helped to eoable them to multiply, and that bo tho benefit will be achieved without the evil. I make this statament because it sufficiently meets the charge of cruelty with which my view is commonly met."