194 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. VI. 



not been up after twelve for a long time except on Satur- 

 days when I am not reading. . . . You will have heard 

 how the Council of King's College have sat upon Professor 

 Maurice and intend to turn him out of the college. So 

 there are pamphlets and replies on the meaning of the word 

 " Eternal," and broadsides of the Eecord on the SIDE of the 

 attack. I see that the Kev. Berkeley Addison is in trouble 

 about the Scottish Reformation Society, for associating with 

 non-episcopal clergymen. 



To LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq. 



Trin. Coll., 3d Dec. 1853. 



. . . We have the usual amount of discussion here on 

 labour parliaments, multiplicity of votes, Eternity and 

 Maurice and Jelf, or the contest between those who think 

 that there is a real depth to which thought must go, though 

 words cannot well follow it, and those who maintain that 

 that which is not obvious to a man of sense, cannot be 

 really connected with a religion which is not confined to 

 deep thinkers, but professes to afford the highest principles 

 to the simple. That is what most men discuss. Maurice 

 has settled it for himself, believing that the things of which 

 he treats do actually form the necessary thoughts of all men 

 whether learned or no. 



FKOM HIS FATHER. 



Glenlair, 16th December 1853. 



I knew Thomas Erskine of Linlathen very well long ago. 

 He and his mother and sisters lived in No. 30 Heriot Eow. 

 He came to the Bar in Edinburgh the year before me. He 

 is related to George Duudas, and Stirlings, and Erskines, 

 and many families we visited. For long he has lived at 

 Linlathen, near Dundee, and is author of various religious 

 books. 



Your dissertation on the parties in the Church of Eng- 

 land goes far beyond my knowledge. I would need an ex- 

 planatory lecture first, and before I can follow the High, 

 Broad, and Low, through their ramifications. 



