Logic, and why therefore Cambridge has produced so few men of genius
and original power since the time of Newton.--Not only it does 'not'
call forth the balancing and discriminating powers ('that' I saw long
ago), but it requires only 'attention', not 'thought' or
self-production.

"In a long-brief Dream-life of regretted regrets, I still find a
noticeable space marked out by the Regret of having neglected the
Mathematical Sciences. No 'week', few 'days' pass unhaunted by a fresh
conviction of the truth involved in the Platonic Superstition over the
Portal of Philosophy,

[Greek: Maedeis age_ometraetos eisit_o].

But surely Philosophy hath scarcely sustained more detriment by its
alienation from mathematics."

MS. Note.]


[Footnote 14:

"In my friendless wanderings on our leave-days, i.e. the Christ
Hospital phrase, not for holidays altogether, but for those on which
the boys are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the school (for I
was an orphan, and had scarce any connexions in London), highly was I
delighted, if any passenger, especially if he drest in black, would
enter into conversation with me; for soon I found the means of
directing it to my favourite subjects--