On academick liberty
Sir: My attention has been drawn (a form of words I use only to emphasise that I would not expend the Queen's new pence on pur- chasing your journal) to a Letter entitled 'On academick liberty' by one Mercurius Oxoniensis (1 May) which I take to be an assumed name.
In this Letter it is said that when faced with the question what is academick liberty I preferred the inductive method of that of the a priori definition.
I thought it was like an Elephant which one may recognise; though final description may not be wholly precise. As one may say of aca- demick tyranny which again I know when I see it—and does not Mercurius? But indeed, on reflec- tion, Mercurius may not for, says OED he is 'a lively and sprightly person; one addicted to cheating and thieving'.
Not yours but another's, I. A. G. Griffith The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London wc2
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