It would, however, be very easy to obtain an excellent tutor.

Lefevre and Malkin are men of first-rate mathematical abilities, and both of our college.

I can scarcely bear to write on Mathematics or Mathematicians.

Oh for words to express my abomination of that science, if a name sacred to the useful and embellishing arts may be applied to the perception and recollection of certain properties in numbers and figures! Oh that I had to learn astrology, or demonology, or school divinity! Oh that I were to pore over Thomas Aquinas, and to adjust the relation of Entity with the two Predicaments, so that I were exempted from this miserable study! "Discipline" of the mind! Say rather starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! But it must be.

I feel myself becoming a personification of Algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of Logarithms.