He answers no questions.

Rapid mathematicians, men of study, who by intense application and short methods have become expert, have sought to probe these two mysteries, but without results.

Indeed, the man's intelligence is of so low an order as to prevent him from aiding those who seek to know.

With age, too, he grows more surly.

Of what vast value this 'gift' might be to the world of science, if coupled with average intelligence, is readily imagined.