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better that Mr. De Morgan should have published a 

 fuller statement of his views at the time, and have thus 

 left less to be done by his biographer. But he had several 

 reasons for not doing this. He refrained partly from 

 reluctance to add to the censures which were being pro- 

 nounced on the College, perhaps too emphatically, even by 

 well-wishers, and re-echoed by its enemies with uncon- 

 cealed satisfaction ; partly by the feeling that he had 

 made no sacrifice of a pecuniary nature in resigning his 

 Professorship ; but, as I think, chiefly from weariness and 

 disappointment, and from a desire to have done with the 

 Institution as soon as possible. Nothing, not even a dis- 

 tinct recantation of the measure which made him leave, 

 would have induced him to resume his chair, for he would 

 have held such a recantation to be but another concession 

 to expediency in deference to the storm unexpectedly 

 raised. 



Should any portion of what I have written appear un- 

 called for, it must be remembered that I could not touch my 

 husband's side of the question without placing the whole 

 before my readers. The insertion of the lengthy justifica- 

 tion of the Council by members of the Senate will, I 

 trust, exempt me from the charge of having suppressed 

 arguments 011 the other side. 



SOPHIA ELIZABETH DE MORGAN. 



Cheyne Row, 



Chelsea, 1882. 



