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1858. might be down upon me if I missed it. But I see through 

 you you were pretending to labour under a marik d* intelligence. 

 As to the little dees De Mogorgon it is not the first time. 

 My old friend Farish (the professor's son) could not call me any- 

 thing else ; it went against his conscience up to the day of his 

 death. ' But why is the gentleman not called De Mogorgon ? ' 

 I am constantly tempted to make a mistake in one Greek name, 

 because in the second-hand book lists it always comes after mine. 

 Look into any book list of a miscellaneous character, and you 

 will see the succession following : 



De Moivre 

 De Morgan 

 De Mosthenes. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To the Rev. Dr. Whewell. 



Oct. 10, 1858. 



MY DEAR SIR, Many thanks for the Bacon which you found 

 in the Barrow. It all amounts to wondrous little, if, as you say, 

 Bacon was known to the Cambridge men generally. How could 

 Bacon be so little quoted ? The conceits of which that age was 

 fond were taken out of puerility by him, and made into wit and 

 covered with taste. And yet they knew nothing of him to speak 

 of. Newton's silence is emphatic. When I have time and 

 opportunity I intend to work out the thesis, * That Newton was 

 more indebted to the Schoolmen than to Bacon, and probably 

 better acquainted with them.' 



The question whether I wrote the two articles in the Athe- 

 nceum is entirely the question whether personal identity lasts 

 through time. 



Cowley I had forgotten. I have looked him up again, and 

 see that he merits Harvey's satire. Gassendi I knew of. He is 

 a Baconian prononce. I dare say you have received Mansel's 

 vol. of Bampton Lectures. I tell him by this post that it is the 

 best argument I have seen against subscription at matriculation. 

 Can you detect that the printer has punctuated Bampton's will 

 into full Priestleian heterodoxy ? . . . 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



