human
But when he was ten (1830) he became one of his Uncle William's pupils, and this led to some progress. There was drawing, map-making, experimenting, Greek Testament without grammar, but comparatively little lesson-learning.
gpt
As a consequence, I was not in continual disgrace. The boy was quick in all matters appealing to reason, and
human
and was continually stimulated by the question,
gpt
Can you tell me the cause of this?
human
Always the tendency in himself, and the tendency strengthened in me, was to regard everything as naturally caused; and I doubt not that while the notion of causation was thus rendered much more definite in me than in most of my age, there was established a habit of seeking for causes, as well as a tacit belief in the universality of causation.
gpt
A tacit belief in the universality of causation seems a big item to be put to the credit of a boy of thirteen, but we have the echo of it in Clerk Maxwell's continual boyish question,
human
What is the go of this?