2-698-967 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Coger's Hall, from an old print', 1897. Cogers Hall as it might have looked in the 18th century. Cogers Hall, a debating society that met in a London tavern, was instituted in 1755. The accepted derivation of the name is from Descartes' 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I am). From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]