He was too curious, too restless, too passionate about many things.

Above all he was beginning, in the tutor's opinion, to concern himself disastrously early with that most overwhelming and most brain-confusing of all human interests--the interest of religion.

Grey had made him 'earnest' with a vengeance.
Elsmere was now attending Grey's philosophical lectures, following them with enthusiasm, and making use of them, as so often happens, for the defence and fortification of views quite other than his teacher's.

The whole basis of Grey's thought was ardently idealist and Hegelian.

He had broken with the popular Christianity, but for him, God, consciousness, duty, were the only realities.