Morning cloudy but it cleared away at noon. We had a thunder storm in the night. My cold is passing off but it leaves me in a worse condition as to feeling than I before remember. I went to the Office. Mr. Walsh came in and passed so much time that I had none left to do any thing even if I had the disposition. Went through the regular business and then went to walk. Home. Continued Ibis. He seems to have concentrated all his knowledge of the dreadful in the ancient Mythology to heap up in imprecation upon the head of his opponent. I do not yet find the difficulty which I anticipated. But I am much indebted to valuable notes.

Afternoon Grimm and the system of Deontology. An attempt to reduce morality to the rule of three. As so much pain is to so much pleasure so is the act in question to the fourth quantity which is virtue or vice according to the result of the multiplication and division. A more miserably defective system could scarcely be devised. Yet this is the great lever which is about to move the world. Notwithstanding all this some particular views are valuable.