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Thompson, Whewell's successor in the mastership, was my brother's tutor. He is now chiefly remembered for certain shrewd epigrams; but then enjoyed a great reputation for his lectures upon Plato. My brother attended them; but from want of natural Platonism or for other reasons failed to profit by them, and thought the study was sheer waste of time.
The only book in sight, Whewell's Elements of Morality," seemed to attract flies. Query, Why should this have such a different effect from Porter's? A white house, a pleasant-looking house at a distance, amiable, kindly people in it, why should we have arrived there on its dirty day? Alas! if we had been starving, Valle Crusis had nothing to offer us.
Natural science is the department into which they seem to have thrown their intellect most effectively for the last ten or fifteen years. We are reading Whewell's "History of the Inductive Sciences," which gives one a summary of what has been accomplished in that way, not only in past ages, but in the present.
IV. With respect to the Moral Code, Whewell's arrangement is interwoven with his derivation of moral rules. Thus the five leading branches of virtue have a certain parallelism to the five chief classes of motives Bodily Appetites, Mental Desires, Love and its opposite, the need of a Mutual Understanding, and Reason.
They were reading in every spare moment, twelve plays of Shakespeare, Goethe's works, Wilhelm Meister, Götz von Berlichingen, Hermann and Dorothea, Iphigenia, Wanderjahre, Italianische Reise, and others; Heine's poems; Lessing's Laocoön and Nathan the Wise; Macaulay's History of England; Moore's Life of Sheridan; Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters; White's History of Selborne; Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences; Boswell; Carpenter's Comparative Physiology; Jones' Animal Kingdom; Alison's History of Europe; Kahnis' History of German Protestantism; Schrader's German Mythology; Kingsley's Greek Heroes; and the Iliad and Odyssey in the original.
The only book in sight, Whewell's "Elements of Morality," seemed to attract flies. Query, Why should this have such a different effect from Porter's? A white house, a pleasant-looking house at a distance, amiable, kindly people in it, why should we have arrived there on its dirty day? Alas! if we had been starving, Valle Crusis had nothing to offer us.
Whewell's expression, on the facts in question. But even such conceptions are the results of former comparisons of individual facts. Whewell says, to connect. Dr. Whewell says that conceptions must be appropriate and clear. So, again, they must be clear in the following sense; that is to say, a sufficient number of facts must have been carefully observed, and accurately remembered.
Airy and myself, that loss of vision was preferable to loss of hearing, because it shut one out less from human companionship. "Dr. Whewell's self-respect and immense self-esteem led him to imperiousness of manner which touches the border of discourtesy. He loves a good joke, but his jests are serious.
To this article of Professor De Morgan's on Euclid, and to Professor Whewell's excellent "History of the Inductive Sciences," from which I, being neither Arabic scholar nor astronomer, have drawn most of my facts about physical science, I must refer those who wish to know more of the early rise of physics, and of their preservation by the Arabs, till a great and unexpected event brought them back again to the quarter of the globe where they had their birth, and where alone they could be regenerated into a new and practical life.
By Laurens P. Hickock, D.D. 1 volume, 8vo. 397 pages, $1.75. Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences. First American, from the third London edition. 2.vols, 8vo. Cloth, $4. The Coopers; or. Getting Under Way. By Alice B Haven. 1 volume, 12mo. 336 page, 75 cents. Appleton's New American Cyclopædia. A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. To be completed in fifteen volumes.
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