346 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1866. desire to preserve the unsectarian character of the College 

 CoTiIge! lty was so muc h dust thrown in the eyes of the public, ' and 

 that the College had declared itself truly a ( godless Col- 

 lege,' as it had long been called by the orthodox. Scoffers 

 laughed, and opined that ' the College ' could do without 

 its principles, but the principles could not do without their 

 College. 



Meeting of The next meeting of Proprietors was appointe d for 

 >roprietors. Febmarj 2? 1867. But before the end of the current year, 

 and with reference to the requisition already referred to, 

 the Senate met again and supported the decision of the 

 Council, and in anticipation of the meeting addressed a 

 statement to the Proprietors. Though the real question, 

 which lies in a very few words, has been distinctly stated 

 in Mr. T)e Morgan's letter of resignation, I should be 

 thought to give an ex-parte account of the whole affair if 

 I were to omit the arguments on the other side. The 

 strongest of these may fairly be presumed to be embodied 

 in this statement of fifteen Professors, of whom more 

 than one had belonged to the institution from its found a- 

 tion. I feel it only right to give the document at length . 



Statement addressed to the Proprietors of University College. 



A certain number of Fellows and Proprietors of University 

 College, London, have required the Council of the College to 

 convene a Special General Meeting of the Proprietors, 'to con- 

 sider a recent resolution of the Council declining to appoint 

 the Rev. James Martineau to the Professorship of Mental Philo- 

 sophy and Logic, after a Report of the Senate that he was the 

 best qualified candidate for the chair ; ' and a Special General 

 Meeting will be held, in consequence of this requisition, on 

 Saturday, February 2. 



The subject which the meeting is convened to consider h as 

 attracted much attention, and has been the occasion of many 

 articles in various daily and weekly papers ; and as is usually, 

 and indeed inevitably, the case when writers press forward to 

 instruct the public under the influence of a strong preconceived 

 opinion, and with an imperfect knowledge of the constitution 



