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1853. to creep in ? I hope the graduates will show that their colleges 

 have trained them to ask these questions. If they be not asked, 

 and asked to good purpose, the University may gain a parlia- 

 mentary voice, but it will not gain the respect of that highly 

 educated world to which the common sense of common people 

 teaches them to look up for opinions on the higher education. 

 And the old institutions which are rousing themselves into 

 activity will have it delegated to them, a century hence, to teach 

 the University of London what it was hoped by some the 

 University of London would teach them. 



I am, dear sir, 



Yours truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Admiral Smyth. 



7 Camden Street, January 5, 1854. 



1854. MY DEAR ADMIRAL, You probably know why your note has 



remained unanswered. I and Mrs. De Morgan are just beginning 

 to recover the shock it has given us. Your sheets may come as 

 usual if you have any to send, 



I congratulate you on the news you conveyed to me, though, 

 having mislaid your note, I cannot remember the name. You 

 have twice had to bear a loss similar to mine, and I hope you 

 will depart yourself in the course of nature before the distant 

 time comes when you would have to face it a third time. 



If you have anything to contribute or to suggest for the 

 Annual Report, now is the time. Our kind regards to Mrs. 

 Smyth and the young ladies, 



Yours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To the Rev. Dr. Whewell. 



January 24, 1854. 



MY DEAR SIR, Your book on the * Plurality of Worlds * 

 reached me at a time when I could only throw it by for better 

 days, and I believe it would have remained on one side as an 

 anonymous attempt to prove what every one believed without 

 knowing anything about the matter if I had not been told, 

 casually, that you were the author, and that the title ought to 

 have been 'On the Singularity of the World.' Accordingly, 

 knowing whom to thank, I thank him ; and learning that the 

 argument is singular, I read the book. 



