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him the same supremacy here as with us, yet personally he 

 is regarded as a fanatic. He was so carried away with Mal- 

 thusianism that he personally distributed tracts through 

 London, like Bill Green went round throwing them into 

 the cellars. On the subject of women all his friends regard 

 him as a monomaniac. If the intellectual equality of men 

 and women is questioned in his presence he flies into a 

 passion and raves and rages at an awful rate. Furthermore, 

 his view of his late wife is recognized as part of the mono- 

 mania. He married very late lived with his wife but three 

 or four years. She was a widow, and followed him over the 

 Continent a good while before they were married. How 

 she could have been 4< the inspirer and in part the author of 

 all that is best " in his writings seems singular. She is 

 buried at Avignon. He has built a splendid monument to 

 her, and takes charge of the English portion of the ceme- 

 tery, going there every year and spending a good deal of 

 his time. These are quite curious personal details. 



Morell knew Sir William Hamilton well. It was men- 

 tioned in illustration of Sir William's irascibility that, being 

 once at a meeting of the Philosophical Society where Gla- 

 cier Forbes, who was something of a dandy, attacked him, 

 he exclaimed that he " was not going to be put down by a 

 d d puppy ! " Great commotion. "Why, why, Sir Wil- 

 liam," cried the president, " such language as that before 

 this learned body!" "I don't call this a learned body!" 

 sputtered the angry Hamilton. 



Morell thinks he shall rewrite his history, bringing it 

 down to the present day ; thinks he is better fitted for a 

 historian than an analytic psychologist. The article he 

 published in the Medico-Chirurgical in 1855, which first in- 

 troduced us to Spencer, was written at the request of the 

 National Review, Martineau's Unitarian organ. As they 

 had called for it, they sent him the money for it, but refused 

 to publish it it was too materialistic. Morell says they 



