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author of the second. I read it through, which is a point on 1864. 

 which most reviewers of books are apt to be evasive, and, as I 

 did so at one sitting, I need not say I liked it. A 3 there are 

 only two Christians in it, or at most three if we count Agellius, 

 there is no scope for a fault which I noticed in a book of the 

 Cardinal's, of which I forget the name, all about St. Pancras 

 (saint, not parish). That fault is that though the author can 

 draw characters, yet the moment he puts on the religion, it is a 

 domino of the same form and colour for all, which makes them 

 look just alike. I thought all the while of the great magician 

 who could make the Calvinism of David Deans and Jeanie as 

 distinct as their characters, sexes, and ages, without anything 

 that would bring either under the censure of the Presbytery. 

 Either Dr. Newman or yourself, or both, have managed three 

 tolerably different phases of religious character. 



You may easily get far enough into my syllabus to see 

 the meaning of the symbols -)) )( &c., which is all the book 

 was intended for I mean the copy sent to you. In )) (), for 

 instance, I see 



1. Premises. 



2. Proof of validity. 



3. Conclusion. 



4. Quantities of all the terms. 



Dr. Watts's book, which I call the English Port-Royal logic, 

 deals little in purely logical exercise. As to your reading it in 

 spite of what it says against the Pope, &c., I should have read it 

 all the more, for I enjoy being assaulted and batteried. But the 

 book is a good one. Had he been of the Parliamentary form of 

 religion, it would have been a great work, as great as any of 

 Paley, in the two Universities. ... I am, dear sir, 



Tours truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir J. F. W. Herschel 



91 Adelaide Road, August 18, 1864. 



MY DEAE SIR JOHN, If you happen to recollect you were 

 Master of the Mint I am sure you had reason enough to recol- 

 lect it you cannot have forgotten that Newton was there before 

 you. His concessis, I find that N. and H. added each one coin 

 to the list ; N. the gold quarter-guinea, which was in circulation 

 until towards the end of the century ; H. the gold quarter- 



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