Item 182 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

Trinity College - WW has seen the London Review of Adam Sedgwick ['A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge', 3rd ed., 1834]: 'I am somewhat puzzled not being able to make out whether the reviewer is a scoundrel who by bringing together peoples passions...or whether he is a real bona fide example of that silliness which belongs to Benthamites and the like, and which can see nothing but moral horrors in all persons of opposite opinions'. WW has 'got a glimpse, which I have long been wishing and struggling for, of the inductive history of ethics. Mackintosh's [James Mackintosh] Dissertation is my main guide'. WW has also been working on a scheme 'of writing a short essay on mathematics as a part of a liberal education, to appear as the preface to a new edition of one of my many mechanical books which is wanted' ['Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics as Part of a Liberal Education', 1835]. WW gives a few speculations on Gothic architecture.