Mr. Spencer and the Women, within The Examiner, issue 3445

Mr. Spencer and the Women, within The Examiner, issue 3445

Hennell, Sara Sophia

London: Open Court Publishing Co., 1874. The Examiner, issue 3445, 1874-02-07, p. 135

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George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, 10 February 1874. “I have read both the newspaper slips. Your letter to the Examiner is much milder than I expected, and hardly makes apparent the severe objections you mentioned to me. But I am not sorry that there should be a little boiling of the peas shot at poor Mr. Spencer just now, for he is running the gauntlet in rather a fatiguing way between Cambridge men who are criticising his physics and psychology, and historians who are criticising the ‘Sociological Tables’ on which he has already spent £500, in the hope that he is doing the world a service. Perhaps you do not see ‘the Academy,’ which has been regenerated and has started on its new life with great vigour: it is in this periodical that the ‘Tables’ have been discussed. Then there is Moulton, a Cambridge mathematician, who is carrying on a venomous as well as harassing attack in the British Quarterly; and there are various bitings and snappings of metaphysicians in other directions. Such are the delights of philosophical celebrity -- of a better sort however than those of poor Dickens, as they are painfully revealed in this third and last volume of his Life.” GEL 6: 15

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