336 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



SECTION X. 



1866-1871. 



1866. I COME now to the last important event of my hus- 

 band's life the cessation of his connection with University 

 College. In recording this I wish to dwell as little as 

 possible on the fact, undoubted by all who were near him 

 at the time, that his last illness resulted from mental 

 trouble consequent upon it, in at least as great a degree 

 as from the losses which befell us later. But however 

 painful it is to write it, and however painful it may be to 

 read for the survivors among those who were indirectly 

 responsible for it, I have no choice but to state what was 

 the belief of all who had the means of forming a true 

 judgment. 



He had joined University College in his early youth, in 

 opposition to the advice of some of his nearest friends, 

 who believed that his interests would not thereby be pro- 

 moted, and to the satisfaction only of those in whose 

 minds the upholding of a high principle was a more 

 weighty consideration than worldly success or affluence. 

 He was fully aware how much less lucrative a Professor- 

 ship in a new institution was likely to be than many 

 appointments which he might have obtained elsewhere. 

 The associations, too, inseparable from a perfectly new 

 institution were less congenial than those in which he 

 would have found himself at either of the two Universities, 

 where he would have worked under and with men whose 

 habits of thought (in some ways) would have been more 

 in harmony with his own. 



He had worked in the new institution with untiring 

 energy for six-and-thirty years, because he trusted the 



