He would have the new algebra (Heaven knows where he had heard about it, for it is almost unknown in this continent), that or nothing. He stuck with perfect respectfulness, but with invincible pertinacity, to his point. In vain I represented to this inquisitive student that he would do better to take up some other subject lying less off the beaten track of study, such as the higher parts of the calculus or elliptic functions, or the theory of substitutions, or I wot not what besides.
But for the persistence of a student of this university in urging upon me his desire to study with me the modern algebra I should never have been led into this investigation and the new facts and principles which I have discovered in regard to it (important facts, I believe), would, so far as I am concerned, have remained still hidden in the womb of time.
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