ABSTRACT
In 1851 Professor Augustus de Morgan of the University of London, writing to a friend at Cambridge, argued that the epistles of St Paul to the Greeks may be distinguished from those to the Hebrews on the basis of average word length. If so, de Morgan declared that he would be quite sure that the epistles to the Hebrews were not by Paul (Allen 1974). This may be the first recorded instance of a suggestion for a method completely independent of literary qualities to discriminate between authors.
