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I must still come back to the year 1842. In the October number 

 of the "Westminster Review" for that year was published his article 

 on Bailey's " Theory of Vision," in which he upheld the Berkeleian 

 doctrine against Bailey's attacks. I remember his saying that he went 

 to the country, on one occasion, from Friday till Tuesday, and in the 

 three days wrote this article. With all his respect for Bailey, he 

 used a number of expressions very derogatory to his understanding ; 

 attributing to him such things as a "triumphing over a shadow," 

 "misconceiving the argument he was replying to," etc. Bailey was 

 much hurt at the time by these expressions ; and Mill's reply on this 

 point is very characteristic (" Dissertations," ii., 119) : "To dispute 

 the soundness of a man's doctrines and the conclusiveness of his argu- 

 ments, may always be interpreted as an assumption of superiority over 

 him ; true courtesy, however, between thinkers, is not shown by re- 

 fraining from this sort of assumption, but by tolerating it in one 

 another ; and we claim from Mr. Bailey this tolerance, as we, on our 

 part, sincerely and cheerfully concede to him the like." This was his 

 principle of composition throughout his polemical career, and he never 

 departed from it. Of Bailey's reply on this occasion, he remarked : 

 " The tone of it is peevish. But Bailey is, I know, of that temper 

 or rather I infer it from sundry indications." 



ATLANTIS NOT A MYTH. 



By EDWARD H. THOMPSON. 



OUR sturdy worker in the copper mines of Lake Superior, finding 

 both himself and his vein of copper growing poorer day by day, 

 determines to seek some more paying claim in the as yet unexplored 

 portion of the copper country. He gathers his kit of tools together 

 and starts, and, after many a hard hour's travel over the wild and rug- 

 ged country, finds a region with abundant signs of copper, and where 

 seemingly no human foot has trod since creation's dawn. 



He strikes a rich vein and goes steadily to work digging and blast- 

 ing his way to the richer portions, when suddenly, right in the richest 

 part, he finds his lead cut off by what looks to his experienced eye 

 marvelously like a mining shaft. Amazedly he begins to clear out 

 of the pit the fallen earth and the debris of ages, and the daylight thus 

 let in reveals to his astonished gaze an immense mass of copper raised 



" Logic " with avidity, and took up Corote with equal avidity. These two works, I be- 

 lieve, gave him his start in philosophy; for, although he had studied in Germany for 

 some time, I am not aware that he was much impressed by German philosophy. In an 

 article in the " British and Foreign Review," in 1843, on the modern philosophy of 

 France, he led up to Comte, and gave some account of him. 



