The life and letters of Herbert Spencer . order. It is rather by the amount of it and bythe general regard to appearance that the effect is of the public buildings and the house fronts leaves myopinion of French taste much as it was—by no means a highone. There is a certain poverty of conception, a mechanical-ness in the designs—a formality, a lack of poetry. And there isfrequently in the French buildings what I have often noticed inthe French furniture—a want of that massiveness, that sub-stantiality, which is a requisite basis of true beauty. . OnSunday, I went to the fete
The life and letters of Herbert Spencer . order. It is rather by the amount of it and bythe general regard to appearance that the effect is of the public buildings and the house fronts leaves myopinion of French taste much as it was—by no means a highone. There is a certain poverty of conception, a mechanical-ness in the designs—a formality, a lack of poetry. And there isfrequently in the French buildings what I have often noticed inthe French furniture—a want of that massiveness, that sub-stantiality, which is a requisite basis of true beauty. . OnSunday, I went to the fete of St. Cloud. . One thing I sawastounded me not a little, and, little squeamish as I am likelyto be on such a matter, somewhat shocked me. Fancy atableau vivaiit of the crucifixion performed by three children—two boys and a girl, on a little revolving table in the midst ofholidav-makers. The article on Railway Morals and Railway Policv,appeared in the Edinburgh Revieiv for October, 1854. Compare Autobiography, i., ??^iiS^awjj,;^ HERBERT SPEXCER,from a photograph taken in 1855. 1853-57] ^ New Psychology yj To HIS Father. 24 October, railway article is quite a success. The Economist andSpectator of this week have both leading articles upon it, approv-ing the principle enunciated, and hinting at an alteration of thelaw. . The Railway Times, too, notifies that it has moreextracts in type. These things render it probable that someresult may arise from the article in a public point of view ; andpersonally they will be very advantageous in putting me on agood footing with the Eciinbiirgli. 19 November.—I have just been making such additions tothe ? Universal Postulate and such divisions of it into parts aswere needful to form it into the tirst part of my Psychology—the General Analvsis. I have made it clearer and stronger ; andhave met such objections as had been raised. 11 March, 1855.—It is sufficiently clear, therefore, that bethe ultimate arrangement
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