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1865. attribute. I contend in that paper that the logician's form of 

 extensive reading stands or falls with the immerical syllogism, 

 which is the true genus. 



Yours truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Chief Baron Pollock. 



MY DEAR 0. BARON, First as to subjective and objective. Th. e 

 thinking mind is the subject, id quod subjicitur. The external 

 thing, relation, &c., is the object, id quod objicitur. Or the acts 

 of the minds may themselves be objects ; i.e., one mind may b e 

 the object of another mind. 



I see an apparition : is it subjective or objective ? If it be a 

 thing of my mind its existence is subjective. 



This use and others are not very sound. But, generally, 

 objective has that relation to the thinking mind which subjective 

 has to the exciter of its thoughts. 



When Kant makes space and time pure concepts of mind to 

 put things into, the things themselves being in some unin- 

 telligible sense external, he is said to make space and time purely 

 subjective^ 



As to your being old, you are the youngest I have lately heard 

 of. On Saturday, at University College distribution of prizes was 

 Lord Brougham, eighty-seven, much broken, but still himself, 

 and able to deliver himself as fluently as ever, and with that 

 powerful delivery of the one word which makes his sentences so 

 effective. And there was Crabb Robinson, ninety in May, and 

 quite alive to everything. And he will last for ever if he will 

 only take advice I heard given to him, i.e. not to talk more than 

 two hours at a time. 



With your note came an acknowledgment from General 

 Perronet Thompson, B. A. of 1802, and Fellow of Queen 's before 

 he was an ensign. And he works at acoustics as hard as ever 

 he did at the Corn Laws. I say nothing of boys of seventy who 

 are scattered about. Our kind regards to Lady Pollock and 

 the family. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



