Item 172 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

5 pp

Herstmonceux, Hailsham - From what JCH has heard the BAAS at Newcastle 'seems to have been a grand meeting. It was amusing to see you again called up to rebuke some of Babbage's folly'. Has WW read Frederick D. Maurice's article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: 'It is brim full of genius and subtle thought, like everything he writes, but with a great deal which, I fear, is only fanciful. Mill's article on Bentham in the London seems to me most masterly: and it is delightful to see that party casting all the worst part of their errors, and incorporating so much of high truth. Everywhere in philosophy it looks as if the extremes were drawing toward each other, and longing to write in a true position centre of union, not a juste milieu of indifference; of which the best account that I have seen is Lafayette's, that, when one man says twice two is four, and another man that twice two is six, the juste milieu man exclaims, No twice two is four'. Information concerning JCH's student, George Wagner, who is coming up to Trinity College.