368 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1871. was, to him at least, visible and real. After this he said 

 very little, only on the last morning of his life asking me, 

 as he had been used to do, ' if it was time to get up.' On 

 being told that it would soon be, he seemed to be carefully 

 dressing himself. Then he lay quite still till, just after 

 midnight, he breathed his last. The state of mind in 

 which he had lived, and in which he died, is shown by a 

 sentence in his will : 



I commend my future with hope and confidence to 

 Almighty God ; to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

 whom I believe in my heart to be the Son of God, but whom 

 I have not confessed with my lips, because in my time such 

 confession has always been the way up in the world. 



