Note 166 — Chapter VI · UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE—OCTOBER 1850 TO JANUARY 1854—Æt. 19-22.

Compare Plato, Thœt. 147, C D. A Cambridge friend who knew Maxwell at a later time, says of him, “One striking characteristic was remarked by his contemporaries at Hopkins’s lectures. Whenever the subject admitted of it he had recourse to diagrams, though the rest might solve the question more easily by a train of analysis.”