342 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1866. his psychology as well as to his religion : the first is too far 

 igna- f rem ved from atheism to please the philosopher, the 

 ioii. second too far removed from orthodoxy to please the 



priest No longer neutral between the disputes of 

 Christians, the College is to apply the abandoned principle 

 in another field. The frontier is to be rectified by putting 

 Theism in the place of Unitarianism, and making God an 

 open question, not to be the basis of any teaching on the 

 human mind. And so it is contrived that one and the 

 same victim, offered on the altar of the Janus Bifrons of 

 expediency, shall appease both the priest and the philo- 

 sopher, while each votary selects the particular head of 

 the deity to which his offering is made. 



I proceed to show that (supposing me willing to re- 

 main) I am as worthy to be extruded as Mr. Martineau to 

 be excluded. 



I have for thirty years, and in my class-room, acted on 

 the principle that positive theism may be made the basis 

 of psychological explanation without violation of any law 

 of the College. When in elucidating mathematical prin- 

 ciples it is necessary to speak of our mental organisation 

 as effect of a cause, I have always referred it to an 

 intelligent and disposing Creator. The nature of things, 

 the eternal laws of thought, and all the ways by which 

 that Creator is put in the dark corner, have been treated 

 by my silence as philosophical absurdities not worthy to 

 have their silly names intruded upon those who are to be 

 trained to think. Were I to remain under the new 

 system, I should hold it a sacred duty and ah, poor 

 human nature ! a malicious pleasure to extend and 

 intensify all I have hitherto said on this subject. 



Again, for more than thirty years I have been as 

 strong a Unitarian as Mr. Martineau. If I have not 

 raised my voice in this matter, and as strongly as Mr. 

 Martineau 1 has done, it is because I have been deeply 



1 In writing the above (as will be evident to the reader) Mr. De 

 Morgan believed Mr. Martineau to be of the older Unitarian school, 



