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In 1858 appeared his ' Novum Organum Renovatum,' and in 1860 his 

 ' Chapters Critical and Historical on the Philosophy of Discovery,' 

 being in part a reproduction of particular portions of his ' Philosophy of 

 Inductive Science,' of several essays on Plato, Aristotle, &c., communi- 

 cated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and of a series of ' Ee- 

 marks on Induction with reference to Mr. Mill's Logic' (1849) — in 

 part comprising several new and very striking chapters on the theolo- 

 gical views suggested by physical discovery. 



His devotion to the Platonic view of the ideal world seemed to grow 

 with his growth and strengthen with his strength, and may be said to 

 have culminated in his Platonic Dialogues, which appeared in 1860, 1861, 

 and 1862, being in effect a translation of the most important portions 

 of PLato's dialogues, accompanied with a kind of running comment, 

 explanatory of such portions as might be judged irrelevant or tedious 

 if translated at length — a work which he declares to have been " not 

 lightly executed, but tbe labour of many jears ; each part gone over 

 again and again." 



In 1861 he was called upon by His Eoyal Highness the Prince Con- 

 sort to deliver, for the express instruction of the young Prince of 

 Wales (then a student of Cambridge), a short course of lectures on 

 Political Economy. This, as we have seen, was a subject which had 

 engrossed a large share of his attention at an earlier period, and which 

 he never relinquished, being an ardent admirer of his distinguished co- 

 temporary and dear friend Professor Jones (whose posthumous works he 

 edited), and whose volume on Eent he considered as the only work in 

 which that subject is treated in its most general aspect, and on truly 

 correct principles. Accordingly we find in these lectures, which he 

 subsequently published, frequent reference to his views, and copious 

 extracts from the work itself. 



In 1865 he again became a widower. Stern and somewhat hard as 

 he may have appeared to those who knew him but imperfectly, no man 

 was ever more susceptible of the gentle and tender influences of female 

 society, or had a deeper sentiment of domestic affection, and this last 

 blow for a time completely overcame him. By very slow degrees, and 

 cheered by the society of an attached relative of his former wife, he so 

 far recovered as to be able to resume his philosophical pursuits, and to 

 compose a short but highly interesting article on " Comte and Posi- 

 tivism," which appeared in MacMillan's Magazine. It was his last pro- 

 duction. On the 24th Pebruary 1866, while riding a horse which had 

 twice before thrown him (for though a bold, and even a reckless rider, he 

 was by no means a first-rate horseman, riding negligently, and, in the 

 present instance, probably greatly enfeebled, and perhaps affected 

 by vertigo), he was observed by the ladies in a carriage, beside which 

 he rode, to have lost the command of his horse, and to be partially 

 unseated. Shortly after the horse appeared without his rider, and he 



