for its scientific truth,--for it could pretend to none,--but
because of its assumed bearing upon another field of thought and the
weapon it afforded for expelling mind from the causes of evolution."

The Duke, speaking of Mr. Herbert Spencer's two articles in the
Nineteenth Century for April and May, 1886, to which I have already
called attention, continues:-

"In these two articles we have for the first time an avowed and
definite declaration against some of the leading ideas on which the
mechanical philosophy depends; and yet the caution, and almost
timidity, with which a man so eminent approaches the announcement of
conclusions of the most self-evident truth is a most curious proof
of the reign of terror which has come to be established."

Against this I must protest; the Duke cannot seriously maintain that
the main scope and purpose of Mr. Herbert Spencer's articles is new.
Their substance has been before us in Mr. Spencer's own writings for
some two-and-twenty years, in the course of which Mr. Spencer has
been followed by Professor Mivart, the Rev. J. J. Murphy, the Duke
of Argyll himself, and many other writers of less note. When the
Duke talks about the establishment of a scientific reign of terror,
I confess I regard such an exaggeration with something like
impatience. Any one who has known his own mind and has had the
courage of his opinions has been able to say whatever he wanted to
say with as little let or hindrance during the last twenty years, as
during any other period in the history of literature. Of course, if
a man will keep blurting out unpopular truths without considering
whose toes he may or may not be treading on, he will make enemies
some of whom will doubtless be able to give effect to their