Stuk 7 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

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Brasted - RJ's is continuing with his book [on political economy]: 'I think pretty well but after all I must hurry it which is mortifying from a conviction I have that I could make something that would last if I dared to be longer about it'. RJ is extremely pleased that WW shares his 'noble rage against the word metaphysics. Let us charge at it full tilt and lay it grovelling in the dust if we cannot kill it - it is lucky we have such a Bond of Union for if you write your intended treatise on the evidence on which the elementary truths in mixed mathematics rest I dare swear we shall agree about little else. I fear you will be a sad Heretic and what is worse a German Heretic or Leibneitzian'.