262 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. IX. 



To THE SAME. 



Glenlair, 18th July 1856. 



I can promise you milk and honey and mutton, with 

 wind and water to match, a reasonable stock of natives of 

 great diversity, and very unlike any natives I know else- 

 where. I also expect a cousin 1 here, who carries a clear 

 and active mind in a body ditto ditto, and I hope to make 

 them stick closer together by the material above stated. 



To THE SAME. 



Glenlair, 9th September 1856. 



My only hope for Pomeroy is that he may keep Ms 

 health; if that remains I think it quite presumptuous to 

 interfere with him by hopes or otherwise, for I would rather 

 be interfered with by him (from which I am safe) than 

 bother a man who steers so well himself. You must 

 remember that besides the clerical shell of respectability 

 which is to be put on, there is sometimes a lay shell of 

 avrjpiQfjuov 7eAa<r/xa, which has in some measure to be put 

 off, or perhaps more truly drawn in, for no one that has 

 once known can ever forget that instead of two views 

 there are three, good, bad, and grotesque ; and tho' all 

 things are full of jokes, that does not hinder them from 

 being quite full, or even more so, of more solemn matters. 

 It also strikes me that if we were to compare notes, the 

 thing we would most differ about would be the notion we 

 have of the " standpoint " (see religious prints, passim) of 

 the men whom we know in common. 



My own notion is that you see him where he ought to 

 be according to principle, and I see him where he acts, as 

 if he was, that is, in the position which would naturally 

 produce his actual life. But I find on comparing notes with 

 other people that a man always shows himself up differently 

 'according to the man who is with him. In fact I do it 

 myself, so I must now show up the fishing side for the 

 benefit of Charlie (Cay). 



1 Charles Hope Cay. 



