322 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1863. fear their metre, which will never go down; but they will do 

 good to the decimal principle. I think we shall get the decimal 

 coinage up again by their help. 



I am dry of information of every kind. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To the Rev. Dr. Husenbeth. 



91 Adelaide Road, December 31, 1863. 



MY DEAR SIR, I am very much obliged for the excerpt. 

 But how do you manage with rubric letters on a dark morning 

 or by candlelight ? The first opening I made of the creed 

 showed me, by candlelight, ' eeque confondentes personas,' 

 which, said I, must be a misprint. 



I am glad to be set right about the flioque. I was once 

 but it dropt puzzled to know how the Greeks could reject two 

 words of the Athanasian when they rejected the whole creed. 

 But like most (Western) others, I had but a cloudy notion of 

 the Greek Church. My Latin Prayer-book is certainly the old 

 Latin. A new Latin translation, the veritable original being 

 Latin, strikes me as would a Greek Homer translated from 

 Pope. . . . 



I shall certainly attack reliable. One of the tale-writers in 

 All the Year Round has introduced it into a document purporting 

 to be of the early reign of George III. This is adding insult to 

 injury. 



When I say a journal cannot refuse advertisements, I mean 

 that it cannot do so without danger to its prosperity. It is 

 found that any check to influx of business is bad policy. 



If the Athenceum of thirty years ago be examined, it will be 

 found that the reader's portion is increased relatively more than 

 the advertisement portion. It is astonishing how many persons 

 delight in running over columns of advertisements. . . . 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To the Rev. Dr. Husenbeth. 



January 12, 1864. 



1864. M J DEAR SIR, Many thanks for the drama, which, not 

 knowing the original, I cannot divide between you and the 



