This, like his posture, nearly recumbent, was deliberately adopted.

"I find," he said, "that the _reflective_ part of my brain works best when I have as little either bodily or _purely_ intellectual to distract me as possible.

And it is the reflective part," he says, "that I always preferred to cultivate, and that latterly I have devoted my whole attention to.

It is through the reflective part that one gets the highest influence over people.
Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect.
"By the reflective part, I mean all that deals with the _connection_ of things, the discovery of principles, the laws that regulate emotion and influence, the motives of human nature, the basis of existence, the solution of the problem of life and being--that vast class of subjects which lie just below, and animate concrete facts, and which are the only things worthy of the devotion of a philosopher, though no knowledge is unworthy of his _attention_.
"I am not quite clear what position I intend to take up in the world at large.

This only is certain, that if I am going to teach, and I have a vague sense that I am destined for that, it is necessary first to know something, to be _sure_ of something." All his days were alike, except that on Sunday he used to frequent city churches in the afternoon, or go to Westminster Abbey and St.
Paul's.