My First Undertaking In The

If My Impressions Are Correct, Our Educational Planing Mill Cuts Down All The Knots Of Genius, And Reduces The Best Of The Men Who Go Through It To Much The Same Standard.

I Finally Reached The Conclusion That Mathematics Was The Study I Was Best Fitted To Follow, Though I Did Not Clearly See In What Way I Should Turn The Subject To Account.

I Had Not Yet Gotten Into The World Of Light. But I Felt As One Who, Standing Outside, Could Knock Against The Wall And Hear An Answering Knock From Within.

I Was Taught The Alphabet By My Aunts Before I Was Four Years Old, And I Was Reading The Bible In Class And Beginning Geography When I Was Six.

The Beginning Of 1856 Found Me Teaching In The Family Of A Planter Named Bryan, Residing In Prince George County, Md., Some Fifteen Or Twenty Miles From Washington.