It only meant that clever and promising boys were earlier associated with men in important business than is customary now.
The old and the young heads began to work together sooner.

Perhaps they felt that there was less time to spare.

In spite of instances of longevity, life was shorter for the average of busy men, for the conditions of life were worse.
Two recollections only have been preserved of his early years.

One is that, as he told his chaplain, Dr.Rawley, late in life, he had discovered, as far back as his Cambridge days, the "unfruitfulness" of Aristotle's method.

It is easy to make too much of this.