Part 25 (1/2)

_March_ 31_st_--Have just got printed, as a leaflet, ”A Disputed Point in Logic”--the point Professor Wilson and I have been arguing so long This paper is wholly in his oords, and puts the point very clearly I think of subical friends

”A Disputed Point in Logic” appeared also, I believe, in _Mind_, July, 1894

This see place in which to speak of a side of Mr

Dodgson's character of which he hienerosity My own experience of him was of a h it put hireat expense and inconvenience; but of course I did not know, during his lifetime, that my experience of him was the same as that of all his other friends The incoht have been spent in a life of luxury and selfishness, he distributed lavishly where he saas needed, and in order to do this he always lived in the most simple way To ust 31st he wrote, in a letter to a friend, Miss Mary Brown: ”And nohat aoes without saying' with ely free from all trial and trouble that I cannot doubt my own happiness is one of the talents entrusted toso to make other lives happy”

In several instances, where friends in needy circumstances have written to him for loans of ive_ you the 100 you ask for” To help child-friends anted to go on the stage, or to take upactors and actresses, paid for the from the best masters, sent round circulars to his nu the his books he never atte to the prejudices and frailties of the age--his one object was to reat Master, in whose steps he so earnestly strove to follow, he ”went about doing good” And one is glad to think that even hismade to serve the saenerous life

Even Mr Dodgson, with all his boasted health, was not absolutely proof against disease, for on February 12, 1895, he writes:--

Tenth day of a rather bad attack of influenza of the ague type Last night the fever rose to a great height, partly caused by a succession of _five_ visitors One, however, was of et, to whom I was thankful to be able to tell all I have had in myas helpful as they could be ave up the attempt to say the Confession at that pace; and now I say it, and the Lord's Prayer, close together, and never hear a word of the Absolution Also

On July 11th he wrote to my brother on the subject of a paper about Eternal Punishment, which was to forious Difficulties:--

I a you the article on ”Eternal Punishment” as it is There is plenty of lad to know your views

Also if there are other points, connected with religion, where you feel that perplexing difficulties exist, I should be glad to know of the helpful

But I had better add that I do not want to deal with any such difficulties, _unless_ they tend to affect _life

Speculative_ difficulties which do not affect conduct, and which come into collision with any of the principles which I intend to state as axioms, lie outside the scope of my book

These axioht_, and of being _wrong_

(2) I possess Free-Will, and a

(3) I have in so wrong

(5) I am responsible to a person

(6) This person is perfectly good

I call them axioms, because I have no _proofs_ to offer for them There will probably be others, but these are all I can think of just now

The Rev H Hopley, Vicar of Westha account of a serson preached at his church:--

In the autumn of 1895 the Vicar of Eastbourne was to have preached e fiveor other intervened, and in the middle of the week I learned he could not coson, as then in Eastbourne, to help er to Mr Dodgson; but knowing froised and explained my position--with Sunday so near at hand After a enial manner made me feel quite at ease as to the abruptness of e, andthe croquet [probably Castle Croquet], and writing out for thera letter was forwarded on the Saturday:--