Fine day. Morning study excepting an hour in fishing. Afternoon, work on my ground. Evening, Lecture at the townhouse.

Locke, p. 240–282. Reason, Faith and Enthusiasm. He thinks of the syllogistic style of reasoning rather less than it appears to me to deserve. One proof of which to my mind is that men often reason so when they have never heard one defined in the schools. The mind of Locke appears to have been strictly philosophical and hence perhaps slightly rigid in it’s judgments.

Lucretius, 780–1084. I have rather hurried over this part of the book containing the account of the natural appearances and their causes very discreditable to the general theory as from the point of view we now regard it. The remainder of my day taken up in work.

Dined at the Mansion. The Lecture at the Lyceum hall was very fully attended. My father read a paper prepared by him as a biography of his father for Mr. Herring’s Portrait Gallery.1 Very good but rather long.