Item 133 - Letter from Hugh James Rose

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Horsham - Can WW find out at Cambridge University Press whether they have anything more than the common Greek letters, or if they can as in Germany print all the Greek numerals. An engraving of each of the Athenian marbles would cost HJR a great deal ['Inscriptiones Graecae Vetustissiamae', 1825]. It is very difficult to get the book you require, and minor German publications are particularly rare in London and Paris. HJR wants 'to know how you modern philosophers believe on one subject. It is pretty clear that the doughty Scotchmen's remedy against Berkeley and Hume is not worth a farthing. Pray then, do you philosophers rest on Berkeley and Hume's conclusions or if not how do you get rid of them?' HJR would like to see a sound volume of Platonism published which would 'put the whole herd of you to the rout. Coleridge does not mean, I hear, to give us his book on the Logos till after his death - so you shd. pray for his life, for when that comes out you will be all utterly demolished'.