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- 13 Mar. 1842 (Production)
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Étendue matérielle et support
8 pp.
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WW is pleased JCH is 'so tender at being reproached with want of love of system; for I feared that you considered the making of systems to be a dangerous employment; - at least in any one since Coleridge'. For WW 'we want systems, true systems - made with all sobriety and impregnable to disbelief - and so, armed against your Greek line - I believe we want such systems more than anything else; because at the root of all improved national life must be a steady conviction of the reason, and the reason cannot acquiesce in what is not coherent, that is, systematic'. Both WW and Thomas Worsley reach close coincidences by approaching the subject of morality in different ways. TW enters on the 'a priori road, through the views of religious teaching, and I, advancing to it on the other side, from psychology through jurisprudence'.