Item 178 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

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Thanks WW for his two letters and two lectures ['Two Introductory Lectures on Moral Philosophy', 1841]: 'The dedication of the latter to Worsley [Thomas Worsley] I was right glad to see'. WW's 'first lecture on casuistry is interesting but is scarcely complete enough to be substantive, and would have come much better, I think, as an introduction to the course on the history of moral philosophy in England, of such I heard several lectures last year. By the by, there were some good remarks on casuistry, if I remember right by De Quincey in an article on Duelling in the February number of Tait'. CJH does not go along with several things WW claims in his second lecture: 'However they both hold out a promise that much will be done for Moral Philosophy in Cambridge'. JCH saw Connop Thirlwall in London - 'who is quite fat upon the cares of his bishopric, though he seems most deeply to grieve over the necessity of abandoning all his former studies all I have seen and heard strengthens my persuasion that his appointment was anything but a happy event for him; and I am afraid he will hardly render so much service to mankind in his new post, as he would have done if he had been allowed to devote his life to philology and philosophy'.