Item 15 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

4 pp.

Brasted - RJ thinks WW should have at least part of RJ's manuscript so as to be able to show proper persons. William Jacob will look over the manuscript - 'but Jacob though an anti Ricardoite clings to Malthus's paradoxes and may not be very hearty about a refutation of them. I was pleased to find he could not make any fight for them but he withholds his adhesion till he has had more time to manufacture a defense for them - I would not allow him to write to Davy if the conviction of his own mind was imperfect as to any part of the system to be launched. I am aware that you share with Herschel a disposition to see a little'. The 'hold that system [Ricardian] palpably, mischievous and immoral have gained upon the public mind the difficulty of gaining a hearing for principles of a different complexion and got at in a different...manner and in the spirit of a less presumptuous philosophy and the propriety of their affording more support at the outset to the - establishment of sound political moral views in a subject which has hitherto only called itself a science to surface a dogmatic philosophy of the most pernicious kind - we must not be too bold in talking of the execution etc. etc. but I will decidedly see you before the attempt is made either at Cambridge in term or here'.