Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 13 Mar. 1842 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Omvang en medium
8 pp.
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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'.