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Concerns Of the Plurality of Worlds.

12 Savile Row - Thanks WW for the 'new edition of his 'Non-Plurality of Worlds'. BCB is neither convinced by WW's argument on the one hand or David Brewster's on the other.

Broome, Betchworth, Surrey - BCB has just finished reading WW's introduction to his Elements of Morality when the Whewells's present arrived: 'It seems an important addition to my library'.

12 Savile Row - BCB would like the opportunity to see WW for a 'few minutes' either today or tomorrow.

Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone - BCB would like WW to be present at a Council meeting of the Royal Society next Thursday.

Broome Pk., Betchworth, Surrey - Thanks WW for his letter and by anticipation his promised volume.

Broome Pk., Betchworth, Surrey - BCB has seen what WW has said respecting Samuel Clarke and Coleridge. Clarke's moral philosophy does not seem much clearer than 'his a priori theological argument'. BCB does not make much of Coleridge's 'dreamy speculations on moral and theological subjects', and is pleased WW is in the same predicament. BCB is reading WW's lectures with the greatest interest ['Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy', new edn., 1862]. Those engaged in the pursuit of the moral sciences would be better if they first had their mind trained in the physical sciences: 'They would I apprehend be there taught to be more exact in their observation of facts, more careful in their inductions and at the same time acquire a greater precision in the use of words'.

14 Savile Row - BCB returns to WW a copy of John W. Lubbock's letter, but would like it back tomorrow so he can send it to the Astronomer Royal.