ms. Then, again, this particular flight is not (so far as I
could make out) in the New Cobb, which is where the accident is described
as occurring. It is true that at first sight it hardly looks dangerous
enough to bring about the sight which delighted the fishermen of Lyme,
namely, a "dead young lady," or rather two, for the sensitive Mary
contributed to the situation by fainting. I am, however, confirmed in my
belief by what happened to myself, when I went to view the classic spot.
I quite suddenly and inexplicably fell down. The same thing happened to
a friend on the same spot, and we concluded that in the surprisingly
slippery character of the surface lies the explanation of the accident.
It had never seemed comprehensible that an active and capable man should
miss so easy a catch as that provided by Louisa. But if Captain
Wentworth slipped and fell as she jumped, she would come down with him.

I am told that when Tennyson visited Lyme he repelled the proposals of
his friends, who wished him to see something of the beauties of the
place, and insisted on going straight to the flight of steps. This is an
attractive trait in Tennyson's character, but it may not have been
pleasing to his hosts.

VI.
THE EDUCATION OF A MAN OF SCIENCE

An Address to the Association of University
Women Teachers, January 13, 1911

In the following pages I propose to give my own experience of education,
that is to say, not of educating others, but of being educated. It seems
to me that the education of one's youth becomes clear to one in middle
life and old age; and that what one sees in this retrospect may be worth
some rough record and some sort of criticism. One may, of course, be
mistaken about what was bad and what was good in one's training. But the
experience of the pupil is, at the least, one aspect of the question.
And I think that the memories of how we were taught is something much
more definite and vivid, something that can be more easily made
interesting to one's readers, than the generalised experience gained as a
teacher.

Any record of education which extends fifty years back has a certain
value, and my experience may serve as a stepping-stone to that of my
father, of which we fortunately have an account in his own words, and
these take us back to a period more than one hundred years ago.

Those of us who are inclined to despair over education as an inherent
misfortu