Spencer's Philosophy of Science / The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913

SPENCER'S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
THE HERBERT SPENCER LECTURE
DELIVERED AT THE MUSEUM 7 NOVEMBER, 1913
C. LLOYD MORGAN, F.R.S.
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SPENCER'S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Towards the close of 1870, while I was still in my teens, my youthful enthusiasm was fired by reading Tyndall's Discourse on The Scientific Use of the Imagination . The vision of the conquest of nature by physical science—a vision which had but lately begun to open up to my wondering gaze—was rendered clearer and more extensive. Of the theory of evolution I knew but little; but I none the less felt assured that it had come to stay and to prevail. Was it not accepted by all of us —the enlightened and emancipated men of science whose ranks I had joined as a raw recruit? Believing that I was independently breaking free of all authority, to the authority that appealed to my fancy, and to a new loyalty, I was a willing slave. And here in one glowing sentence the inner core of evolution lay revealed.