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To the REV. DR. WHEWELL. 



'EDINBURGH, January SM, 1846. 



* I am much your debtor for your very kind and 



friendly letter, which reached me on the banks of the 



!, whither we had gone to spend a few days of my 



Christmas holiday. I return you my sincerest acknow- 



ni'-nt for your Christmas greeting to myself and wife. 



"inch and grievously disappointed, and still am, 



that last June Mrs. Forbes should have been compelled 



to relinquish the pleasure of visiting Cambridge at so 



ini- a time. 



' I an J ;d indeed that you approve of my review 



of Humboldt. Lockhart modified slightly a sentence or 

 tw<. which perhaps, however, would have been scarcely 

 rved by anyone but myself, of course I thought, 

 for the better. Colonel Sabine has resumed his trans- 

 lation, and talks of adding notes. 



' I hear faint echoes of Faraday's prospective discovery, 

 and am on tiptoe about it. 



'I am glad that your History and Philosophy are to be 



inted with the additions which the deliberate revisal 



will enable you to make. If it does not go very rapidly 



through the press, I will endeavour to offer any hints on 



tin- Hi>tory, and shall be happy to look over any sheet 



in proof that you may send me. In the Philosophy, I 



ose you will do battle with Mr. Mill. I cut open 



of his Logic lately, and was interested in many 



.s of education which it presented, ; ind thought some 



of his cautions salutary, without attempting to form any 



judgment upon questions so difficult and at the same 



so purely speculative, that with my present habits 



linking and analysing, I should find some pains 



ssary to fix myself down to an intelligent study of 



v curious and int<-iv>ting subject. Perhaps some 



1)6 more congenial. 



'I am glad you still Imj.c to do something fr the 

 1 Ige system of education, but 1 suppose it will be 



a struggle. 



