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HERBERT SPENCER - Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects [1861]

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Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects, Introduction by Charles W. Eliot (London: Dent, 1911).

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EVERYMAN, I will go with thee,

and be thy guide,

In thy most need to go by thy side

HERBERT SPENCER

Born at Derby in 1820, the son of a teacher, from whom he received most of his education. Obtained employment on the London and Birmingham Railway. After the strike of 1846 he devoted himself to journalism, and in 1848 was sub-editor of The Economist.

He died in 1903.