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1868. bishop or a deacon. This is the meaning of the regulation. Now 

 Colenso saw this, and did not require his converts to reduce 

 themselves to one wife. Not much noise was made about it, for 

 the divines at home did not like to raise the question. 



Colenso is founding a church in Natal with success. He has 

 both a clerical and a lay body of followers. There will be 

 curious consequences, which will find their way home. One Pope 

 at Rome and an opposition Pope at Avignon did something 

 towards the sowing of Reformation seed. But which is Rome 

 and which is Avignon in this case seems not quite clear. When 

 Dr. Philpotts got up his diocesan synods against Gorham, he 

 declared very strongly that every diocese is a separate church, 

 with its own right to pronounce a doctrine. He was quite right ; 

 according to ante-papal Christianity nothing but a general 

 Council could override any one bishop and his synod. But he 

 did not see he played into the hands of the Independents. So 

 the synod was held, and it will not be the last. 



The wind is getting up, and the day is cloudy and compara- 

 tively cool ; there is a synod of clouds. 



Tours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To J. S. Mill, Esq., M.P. 



91 Adelaide Road, September 3, 1868. 



MY DEAR SIR, You are, I suppose, in this interval, as likely 

 as you will be to make a note about your Logic ; so I send a 

 couple of corrections (edit. 6, pp. 9, 71, vol. i.). 



(P. 9.) You will be taken to mean perhaps you meant 

 that the phrase ars artium is due to Bacon. It was an old technical 

 definition of logic. Ludovicus Vives (in the only word of praise 

 he gives to a Schoolman, or nearly) commends Petrus Hispanus 

 (ob. 1277) for making it his definition, and corrects those who 

 think it only an hyperbole of praise, explaining it as the art which 

 treats of arts. 



(P. 71.) A wrong quotation may be defensible when it 

 enhances a joke ; at any rate, Sterne's recording angel would 

 erase the record with a grin, as he did Uncle Toby's oath with a 

 tear. But a defect of quotation which converts humour into 

 dry gravity is one over which the angel, if he shed a shower of 

 tears, would take care none of them should fall. In p. 71 you 

 say that a pedantic physician in Moliere accounts for the fact 



