74 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1836. parties, for when, immediately after, an offer of the 

 Mathematical chair accompanied the thanks of the Coun- 

 cil for Mr. De Morgan's considerate "kindness, the offer was 

 accepted, and the Professor once more settled in his old 

 place. I dare not, in the face of his and my firm 

 belief that all things are ordered for us by a wiser judg- 

 ment than our own, express regret that this should have 

 been ; but the six-and-thirty years of intense labour which 

 followed, ill paid at the time, and terminated by a disappoint- 

 ment which broke his heart, may well make me hesitate to 

 record his return with satisfaction. But he loved his 

 work, and his pupils were endeared to him by the interest 

 they took in his teaching, and their efforts to profit by it. 



