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I consider it very fortunate that so eminent a champion of the contrary opinion as Dr. Whewell, has recently found occasion for a most elaborate treatment of the whole theory of axioms, in attempting to construct the philosophy of the mathematical and physical sciences on the basis of the doctrine against which I now contend.

Whewell says of the Inductive Methods, that ittakes for granted the very thing which is most difficult to discover, the reduction of the argument to formulæ such as are here presented to us.” The grand difficulty, they said, is to obtain your syllogism, not to judge of its correctness when obtained. On the matter of fact, both they and Dr. Whewell are right.

The Russian Government has shown so much zeal in promoting science, that I hope it will not be difficult to engage them in a kind of research so easy, so useful practically, and so interesting in its theoretical bearing. Believe me, dear Mrs. Somerville, Very faithfully yours, W. WHEWELL. My husband had taken me to his bachelor's house in London, which was exceedingly small and ill ventilated.

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.

"An Englishmen is proud; a Cambridge man is the proudest of Englishmen; and Dr. Whewell, the proudest of Cambridge men. "In the opinion of a Cambridge man, to be master of Trinity is to be master of the world! "At lunch, to which we stayed, Dr. Whewell talked about American writers, and was very severe upon them; some of them were friends of mine, and it was not pleasant.

I found in them an amount of truth, and beauty, and richness of good feeling, I had never found in them before. I read many of the hymns of Watts with great pleasure, as well as several collections of hymns and poetry by Roundell Palmer and others. I also read the writings of Chalmers, Whewell, and Lord Brougham on natural theology, and the works of several other authors on that subject.

All were in sunshine; Sabine and Whewell were most conspicuous the latter from this view is a beautiful sharp peak, as remarkable a landmark as Sabine itself. Mount Sabine was 110 miles away when we saw it. I believe we could have seen it at a distance of 30 or 40 miles farther such is the wonderful clearness of the atmosphere. Finis 1910 Sunday, January 1.

"It was no little addition to the honour Hamilton had already received that, when Professor Whewell returned thanks for the toast of the University of Cambridge, he thought it appropriate to add the words, 'There was one point which strongly pressed upon him at that moment: it was now one hundred and thirty years since a great man in another Trinity College knelt down before his sovereign, and rose up Sir Isaac Newton. The compliment was welcomed by immense applause."

I. As regards the Standard, enough has been already indicated. II. The Psychology of the Moral Faculty is given by Whewell as part of a classification of our Active Powers, or, as he calls them, Springs of Action. These are: I. The Appetites or Bodily Desires, as Hunger and Thirst, and the desires of whatever things have been found to gratify the senses.

Whewell contends that, besides the sum of the facts, colligation introduces, as a principle of connection, a conception of the mind not existing in the facts. But, in fact, it is only because this conception is a copy of something in the facts, although our senses are too weak to recognise it directly, that the facts are rightly classed under the conception.

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