My dear Sir

With the very greatest respect, I must beg leave to be permitted to differ from you regarding the matter of the publication of your reply to my question what is an individual? and for this reason, it leaves the matter an open question, upon which therefore, no man need be afraid to exercise his own intellect.¹

Again, if your opinion “that the principle I am acting on is right”,² will not suffice to convince people, clearly no other means can or will; for notwithstanding the thick darkness in which they (the people) are enveloped, there is, even with them, no name in the world so weighty as your own.

And if it pleases them to laugh at me, well and good, only they might as well sit down before a statue of Voltaire and laugh at that.

I am sure you will like to see enclosed from Professor Ansted, and have pleasure in sending it.³

I may say that I have succeeded in interesting, among others, The Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Sutherland [etc] and from the former’s A.D.C. I have letter of thanks for sending your letter (Copy I mean)   I have not yet got at the House of Commons, but expect to do so in a few days.⁴

I am ashamed to trespass so far, but I shall be pardoned I know. | I am my dear Sir | with profound respect | faithfully yours | James Torbitt