18591863] J. S. MILL 189 



I should think, would make it very difficult for any one to Letter 128 

 pourtray him. I have been thinking about Henslow all day 

 a sfood deal, but the more I think the less I can think of to 



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write down. It is quite a new style for me to set about, but 

 I will continue to think what I could say to give any, however 

 imperfect, notion of him in the old Cambridge days. 



Pray give my kindest remembrances to L. Jenyns, 1 who 

 is often associated with my recollection of those old happy 

 days. 



Henry Fawcett 2 to C. Darwin. Letter 129 



It was in reply to the following letter that Darwin wrote to Fawcett : 

 " You could not possibly have told me anything which would have given 

 me more satisfaction than what you say about Mr. Mill's opinion. Until 

 your review appeared I began to think that perhaps I did not understand 

 at all how to reason scientifically " (Life of Henry Fawcett^ by Leslie 

 Stephen, 1885, p. 100). 



Bodenham, Salisbury, July i6th [1861]. 



I feel that I ought not to have so long delayed writing to 

 thank you for your very kind letter to me about my article 

 on your book in Macwillaris Magazine. 



I was particularly anxious to point out that the method 

 of investigation pursued was in every respect philosophically 

 correct. I was spending an evening last week with my 

 friend Mr. John Stuart Mill, and I am sure you will be 

 pleased to hear from such an authority that he considers that 

 your reasoning throughout is in the most exact accordance 

 \\ith the strict principles of logic. He also says the method 

 of investigation you have followed is the only one proper to 

 such a subject. 



It is easy for an antagonistic reviewer, when he finds it 

 difficult to answer your arguments, to attempt to dispose of 

 the whole matter by uttering some such commonplace as 

 " This is not a Baconian induction." 



I expect shortly to be spending a few days in your 

 neighbourhood, and if I should not be intruding upon you, I 



1 The Rev. Leonard Jenyns (afterwards Blomefield) undertook the 

 Life of Henslow, to which Darwin contributed a characteristic and 

 delightful sketch. See Letter 17. 



3 Henry Fawcett (1833-84), Professor of Political Economy at 

 Cambridge, 1863, Postmaster-General 1880-84. See Leslie Stephen's 

 well-known Life, 



