ABSTRACT
Interesting, even absorbing, as all this was, it didn't cut much ice in the matter of making a living, and I had to be on the look out for something that would. Though disillusioned of Unitarianism, I still had the idea of entering some form of ministry and allowed myself to be proposed as Geldart's successor in the Croydon Free Christian Church, even delivering a sermon from its pulpit with that object. Fortunately this came to nothing as did also a conventicle, under a similar title, that a group of friends persuaded me to start during the winter 1888–89 in the smaller room of the Town Hall at Ealing. Fortunately, also, the idea struck some of my Unitarian friends of making Essex Hall in the Strand, where the Ethical Society's lectures were by that time being delivered, a centre of University Extension work, which might be combined with these under my joint secretaryship, and a committee, consisting of Estlin Carpenter, Stopford Brooke, Blake Odgers, Copeland Bowie and one or two others, was formed for that purpose. About the same time Jowett, who knew of my straits, recommended me as Classical and Philosophical Lecturer at the newly founded Royal Holloway College at Egham, and with the two I had enough to live on. Both appointments I held for a year or two, but their claims were too divergent, and my work at both, chiefly the classical part of it at Egham, suffered accordingly. Though I could ill spare it I was in reality glad when the Governors at Egham “relieved” me of this, while I retained the Logic and Psychology, the former of which by this time had become a recognized subject of the Intermediate examinations as an alternative to Mathematics at London University. 1 A similar division about the same time was made at the Bedford College for Women, in those days located in Baker Street, and I was asked to undertake the philosophical work in that energetic and rising institution. Accordingly, for the next six or seven years I became a kind of bagman in philosophy, travelling from the Strand to Bedford College and thence to Egham three or four times a week.
