Ventnor, 22 November 1882
1 St Boniface Gardens

Dear Frep,

CuEQue most gratefully received.

Sam,’ as you, too, immediately saw, criticises the analytic method
as applied by me **' in as much as he quietly sets it aside and instead
turns his attention to the geometrical application, about which I said
nothing at all.

I might similarly dismiss the development of the actual differential
method as it is called-—~beginning with the mystical method of
Newton and Leibniz, then going on to the rationalist method of
d’Alembert and Euler and concluding with Lagrange’s strictly algebraic method (still, however, emanating from the selfsame original
premisses of Newton and Leibniz) -I might dismiss the whole of
this historical development of analysis by saying that, in practice,
no essential change has been brought about in the geometrical application of differential calculus, i.e. in geometrical symbolisation.

Since the sun is just coming out and this, therefore, is the moment
to go for a walk, I shall not, pro nunc,” enlarge further on the subject of
mathematics but shall, on some later occasion, return to a detailed
discussion of the various methods.

Bernstein’s information about the ‘nationalisation’ of the railways
in Prussia is interesting.?

I do not share his views about the great size of Malon’s and
Brousse’s organisation>; the analysis provided at the time by
Guesde of the ‘numerous’ (!) delegation attending the congress of StEtienne has not been refuted, but this would be straining at gnats.°
The first decision to organise a genuine workers’ party in France
dates back to the Marseilles Congress **?; at the time Malon was in
Switzerland; Brousse was NowHere, and the Prolétaire— along with its
trade unions— held aloof.

@ Samuel Moore-° for the time being-° Matthew 23:24

That jackass Amos—the mouthpiece of English officialdom in
Egypt—-has enormously impaired his clients’ case by affording
Keay, author of the pamphlet Spoiling the Egyptians, the opportunity
for ‘A Reyornper’ in The Contemporary Review. Prominent among
those whom Keay has ground ever more deeply into the mup are
Rivers Wilson, Rowsell and Goschen, and with them the British

Ministry.
Salut.
Moor