Therefore a lad at the age of sixteen, if he wants to get at such ideas, must come into close contact with some superior mind in which they were conceived twenty or thirty years before.

I am consequently for placing Kenelm with a person from whom the new ideas can be learned.

I am also for his being placed in the metropolis during the process of this initiation.

With such introductions as are at our command, he may come in contact not only with new ideas, but with eminent men in all vocations.

It is a great thing to mix betimes with clever people.