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Add. MS a/202/127
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Letter from Augustus De Morgan
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- 21 May 1854 (Creation)
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7 Camden St. - Whewell is expressing his anti-pluralism (On the Plurality of Worlds 1853) more positively than before. 'Let it be granted that each planet has upon it, or in it, or around it, some things which have a destiny of their own, for which they might be conceived to exist independently of the other planets or stars. These things I should call inhabitants of that planet' - whether conscious or unconscious De Morgan has no opinion: 'But I cannot divest myself of the idea that they have uses independent of us - and these uses are inhabitants'.
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De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth, Memoir of Augustus De Morgan. London, 1882.