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But I told him that if I could stand high in the esteem of twenty such men as Cayley, Sylvester, and Peirce, I cared nothing to be prominent in the eyes of the rest of the world."
Here's the Adam's Express letter-heads I got to-day. Try your hand on the letter." Cummings, somewhat pacified, with careful and laborious strokes of the pen, wrote as follows: "SPRINGFIELD, Mo., October 24th, '86. MESSENGER, TRAIN No. 3, ST. L & ST. F. RTE: DR. SIR: You will let the bearer, John Broson, Ride in your car to Peirce, and give him all the Instructions that you can. Yours,
She regretted that she so rarely received scientific articles from America; the papers of Lieutenant Maury alone reached her. She spoke of the late Doctor Bowditch with great interest, and said she had had some correspondence with one of his sons; of Professor Peirce as a great mathematician; and she was much interested in the successful photography of the stars by Mr. Whipple.
In November, 1870, Agassiz was able to return to Cambridge and the Museum, and even to resume his lectures, which were as vigorous and fresh as ever. So entirely did he seem to have recovered, that in the course of the winter the following proposition was made to him by his friend, Professor Benjamin Peirce, then Superintendent of the Coast Survey.
Bond could only say, 'I don't know, it looked different from the others. "It is always so you cannot get a man of genius to explain steps, he leaps. "After the discovery of this planet, Professor Peirce, in our own country, declared that it was not the planet of the theory, and therefore its discovery was a happy accident.
We did something dreadful, Ada Peirce, Miriam, and I. We went down to the confectionery; and unable to resist the temptation, made a détour by the Custom-House in hope of seeing one of our poor dear half-starved mule and rat fed defenders.
D. Well, my apology is this; Peirce is like nature,-vast, obscure, mysterious, great bowlders of thought, of which I can hardly get hold; dark abysses, into which I cannot see; but, nevertheless, flashes of light here and there, and for these I come. A. Why, yes, I understand him.
He oughtn't to run and climb about the stable so much after school. See how utterly exhausted he looks! Not even this excitement can keep him awake." "I think we must be careful not to let Mr. Madison suspect anything about the burglar," said Miss Peirce. "It would be bad for him." Laura began: "But we ought to notify the police " "Police!"
A glance at the history of the idea will show you still better what pragmatism means. It was first introduced into philosophy by Mr. Charles Peirce in 1878. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules for action, said that to develope a thought's meaning, we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: that conduct is for us its sole significance.
The following letter to Professor Benjamin Peirce, who was then Superintendent of the Coast Survey, shows, however, his unfailing interest in the bearing of scientific researches on questions of public utility. NAHANT, September 11, 1867.
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