144 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1836. hundred years, and on which she had to form her own opinion 

 with such means as she had ; as have you and myself. But such 

 matters are not with me matters of feeling, they are to be tried 

 by reason and evidence that is by me, for I do not object to any 

 one who thinks he can find truth by another method trying what 

 he can do. You are to judge yourself, I myself, and it is im- 

 possible that any two people can usefully discuss any subject, 

 one of whom believes that a conviction of the truth of opinions 

 is an argument in their favour. Yours most affectionately, 



A. D. M. 



To Dean Peacock. 



69 Gower Street, Nov. 13, 1838. 



DEAR Sm, I would not trouble you, generally speaking, to 

 notice an undergraduate just arrived, but I think my young friend 

 M., the bearer of this, has merit enough to be an exception. He 

 has gone through a good course of reading, and is something like 

 a low wrangler in his present attainments, or rather higher, with 

 very good chance of being made into a high one. He stood a 

 stiff examination for our Flaherty scholarship, as we call it, at 

 Univ. Coll., and though second came off with great honour. 



I remember with great gratitude and pleasure the notice I 

 used to receive myself from those in high station, when I was an 

 undergraduate, having no other claims than of the same de- 

 scription as those which M. now has. I should have left him 

 to find his way in his own College, not doubting that his acquire- 

 ments and industry would soon make him marked ; but I find 

 he is almost entirely without acquaintance. If, then, you will 

 introduce him to one or two of your good men, as we used to call 

 them, his future competitors, you will do a service where it is 

 well deserved, and I shall feel very much obliged. I should like 

 him early to know some reading men out of his own College, 

 from whom he may learn that its system is not necessarily 

 that of the University. 



I do not doubt you found a letter from me containing my 

 proposed test of convergency and divergency. 



You are, of course, interested in all that concerns Dr. Young. 

 A publisher in London has bought or will buy the plates of the 

 Lectures. He proposes to republish them (catalogue excepted) in 

 parts, transferring the copper to lithograph. My colleague 

 Sylvester is to put notes, which with reading he will do very 

 well. I am now proposing it to the Soc. for the Diff. of Useful 



