184 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1853. Q. What is knowledge? 



Xondoif ^* ^ thing to be examined in. 



:amina- Q. What is the instrument of knowledge ? 



sns. . n . _. 



A. A good grinding tutor. 

 Q. What is the end of knowledge ? 

 A. A place in the civil service, the army, the navy, 

 &c. (as the case may be). 



Q. What must those do who would show knowledge? 



A. Get up subjects and write them out. 



Q. What is getting up a subject ? 



A. Learning to write it out. 



Q. What is writing out a subject ? 



A. Showing that you have got it up. 



His objection to the methods pursued by the Univer- 

 sity of London will be found in his letter (p. 222) written 

 in answer to a request. 



In his strictures on the teaching of Physiology he 

 had evidently not contemplated the possibility of the 

 dissection of living animals for demonstration, now hap- 

 pily forbidden by Act of Parliament. Had the question 

 of its expediency for the sake of Science been put to 

 him he would have said, as he always did on such occa- 

 sions, that no imaginary end could justify means which 

 were opposed to a positive law of humanity. 



And his own words on the subject of vivisection show 

 what he thought of it. A surgeon had been describing 

 to us some of Majendie's atrocities (since equalled by those 

 of English and Scotch physiologists), and after our friend 

 was gone I referred with horror to what he had said. My 

 husband, who had been silent some time, said, c Don't talk 

 of it;' then, in a minute or two, pausing between the 

 sentences, he added, ' They will learn nothing by it. It's 

 all of a piece. There is no God in their philosophy.' 



Some few years after this time he came home one day 

 from the College evidently amazed, and told me that some 

 pupils had applied to him to interfere in the following 



