182 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. VI. 



Glenlair, 29th June 1852. 



21. j)i(j y OU a k e O tk e Gr eo i gy at all ? I suppose that 

 the cliffs at Lowestoft are Tertiary, with plenty of fossils. 



Glenlair, 9th Novr. 1852. 

 Nativity of the Prince of Wales. 



Received yours of St. Guy and William. 



The Cambridge Commission as you report of it will not 

 affect you in any way. 



What sort of thing is " College Declamation " ? You 

 - say you have chosen The Scottish Covenanters. Do you 

 take the part of Advocate or Apologist for them ? or do 

 you try the impartial historian ? It would be difficult to 

 give the Scots Prelates their due without offending some of 

 the Order. During the Persecutions both the civil and 

 ecclesiastical government of Scotland was getting ripe for 

 the Revolution. 



Glenlair, llth Novr. 1852. 



It has been said, Had there been two other Leightons 

 instead of Sharp of St. Andrews and of Gal- 

 loway, Episcopacy would have been securely established. 



Glenlair, 2d Feb. 1853. 



Aunty Jane was saying a glass of wine daily, port 

 for preference. 



Glenlair, 12th Feb. 1853. 



. . . Mathematical Journal, to which you send props. 

 What props.? The one about the Pendulum ? 



To LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq. . 



Trin. Coll, 20th Feb. 1853. 



After Chapel I was at Litchfield's, where he, Farrar, 

 Pomeroy, and Blakiston, discussed eternal punishment from 

 8 to 12. Men fall into absurdity as soon as they have settled 

 for themselves the question of the origin of evil. A man 

 whose mind is " made up " on that subject is contradictory 



