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(20) "Not allowing my mind to follow its 

 natural bias." 



(21) "Neglect of many subjects for the at- 

 tainment of one or two ; not pushing mathe- 

 matics to a useful end." 



(22) ''- Not enough liberty ; put back by too 

 much grounding at Cambridge." 



(23) " At school the classical education, viz., 

 construing, parsing and learning grammatical 

 rules, was not to my taste. At Oxford I wasted 

 much time, having little sympathy with the 

 university pursuits and habits." 



(24) " Having so exclusively devoted myself 

 to mathematics at Cambridge." 



(25) " The classical teaching was said to be 

 good, but I did not assimilate it. Perhaps my 

 mental peculiarities and my special inaptitude 

 to commit words to memory would have ren- 

 dered most education, such as it was when I was 

 a boy, ineffectual for much good. The main 

 defect for me certainly was that precise verbal 



