14 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



CH. Ill 



But in the meanwhile he suffered severely 

 at intervals, and doubtless the physical suffering 

 had its natural effect on his nervous system, 

 for those who knew him in his childish days 

 state that in spite of his charm and unusual 

 talents he had a temper which he found it very 

 difficult to control, and which was a cause of 

 much trouble to him, up to the age of twelve. 

 It is perhaps this hard mental schooling which 

 enabled him to emerge from those psychic 

 struggles with a control almost more perfect 

 and a serenity almost more complete than I 

 ever remember to have seen possessed by any 

 other human being. 



Lord Avebury's own comment, in his later 

 years, on the system of education at his private 

 school is that "Mr. Waring was kind, conscien- 

 tious and painstaking; but the education given 

 was not, I think, what Mr. Waring himself 

 would have preferred. It was an excellent pre- 

 paration for the profession of schoolmaster, but 

 not, I think, for life." 



