LITTLE the plan may serve all right. QBut now it was shown 

 JOURNEYS to Newton that a school-man must not only know 



how to work great problems, but know why he goes 

 at it in a certain way : otherwise colleges are vain 

 we must be able to pass our knowledge along. The 

 really great man is one who knows the rules and then 

 forgets them, just as the painter of supreme merit 

 must be a realist before he evolves into an impressionist. 

 CJ Newton now acknowledged his mistake in reference 

 to Euclid, and set to work to master the rules. This 

 graciousness in accepting advice, and the willingness 

 to admit his lapse, if he had been hasty, won for him 

 not only the scholarship, but the love of his superiors. 

 Milton was a radical who made enemies, but Newton 

 'was a radical who made friends. He avoided icono- 

 clasm, left all matters of theology to the specialists, 

 and accepted the Church as a necessary part of society. 

 His care not to offend fixed his place in Cambridge for 

 life. It was Cambridge that fostered and encouraged 

 his first budding experiments ; it was there he was sus- 

 tained in his mightiest hazards ; and it was within her 

 walls that the ripe fruit of his genius was garnered and 

 gathered. When his fame had become national and he 

 was called to higher offices than Cambridge supplied, 

 Cambridge watched his career with the loving interest 

 of a mother, and the debt of love he fully paid, for it 

 was through his name and fame that Cambridge first 

 took her place as one of the great schools of the world. 





