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 Rh parts. for he was too buy in the olid track of learning, & the ublime puruits of mathematical philoophy, to allow of time enough, to be mater of words only; or the trifling nicetys of logical & chool ubtletys, wh then was the chief tet of proficiency in Academic learning, & qualification for a degree.

the famous Dr. Barrow, afterward mater of Trinity college was Sr. Iaac's tutor. if he did not take a byas in favor of mathematical tudys from him, at leat he confirm'd it thereby.

now we are to conider this divine genius like a pring let looe, fully at liberty to follow the bent, & the pursuit of his own inclination. under no restraint, his time wholly his own, had all asistances, & incoragement  & indeed he made uch advances, that he soon outtrip'd his tutor, tho' o coniderable a man. for Sr. Iaac learn'd mathematics, as by intuition; rather it was connate to his undertanding. little need had he of definitions, teps, & firt principles, & rudiments of cience. uch were natural, eay & familiar to his vat mind, pregnant with the mot difficult, & important theorems: wanted only a little time to maturate, & deliver them.

his tutor aw all this, very plainly, conceiv'd the