Pièce 184 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

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Herstmonceux, Hailsham - Thanks WW for the reprint of Bishop Butler [WW, Butler's Three Sermons on Human Nature, 1848]: 'I trust that with the help of your introduction it may be of much use in improving the ethical studies of the university'. JCH was asked the other day at the Athenaeum to sign an address calling on Lord John Russell to send a Commission to reform our universities: 'Of course I protested strongly against such interference, as likely to do little but harm, aggravating many of the evils of the present system; but said I was very anxious for divers internal reforms, of which I had just seen a delightful promise in the new Grace about examinations in the subjects of the Professorial Lectures'. JCH endorses 'the Prospectus of a paper which some admirable friends of mine are undertaking ['Politics for the People']. It seems to me a noble enterprise, and one of the things most indispensable for the preservation of the whole fabric of English Society...We must fight the battle of truth and order against falsehood and lawlessness, so as to [?] minds for the truth; or the glory of England will pass away'.