384 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1868. except on her demand. To be a voter is sometimes dangerous. 

 A man ought to face the danger, but you have no right to enforce 

 it on women ; in principle you might as well enforce the militia 

 on them. Many women think exemption from politics is one of 

 their rights. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To the Rev. J. J. Tayler. 



91 Adelaide Road, N.W., April 9, 1869. 



1869. MY DEAE SIR, I have at last found head to complete the read- 



ing of your two tracts, for which I am much obliged. I think I 

 also have to thank you for a copy of Mr. Martineau's tract, of 

 which we were speaking, and which I received within thirty-six 

 hours of our conversation. Your propositions for a free "Christian 

 Union are brought to a point at which no opinion can be given 

 until more comes out. It seems clear that the freedom extends 

 to a rejection of all direct interference of Deity in old time, that 

 is by those who choose, with liberty to others to retain it, and to 

 dealing in the same manner with the actual existence of Jesus. 

 All that seems to be required is Mr. Martineau's triad (absit 

 Trinitas) of (p. 19) belief in God, piety, and charity. It seems 

 to be required that the morality of Jesus shall be acknowledged. 

 But whether because it finds a response in the human heart, or 

 because it is in some unexpressed way sanctioned by God, does 

 not appear. In fact, there are as yet many points which are only 

 seen through a glass darkly, but the one on which expectation 

 must now wait, which is in the field but without illumination, 

 is the question of worship. Is a joint worship contemplated ? I 

 cannot make out. The moment the plan is sketched out a hundred 

 points will arise. There are two classes of persons with whom I 

 should hold that neither you nor Mr. Martineau should refuse 

 communion : 



1. The old-fashioned Christian the man who starts with 

 Peter. 



2. Those who know no more whether there be a personal and 

 moral directing God than whether He have an Anointed. If 

 these men stipulate for another o, and adopt the creed of love of 

 go(o)d and love to man, they must either be admitted under 

 general agreement as to what is good or a reason of inclusion 



