Would the students in the London University be satisfied with Professor Morgan, if, in what he designated a course of lectures on Mathematics, he were content to regale them with a narrative of the life and adventures of Hermogenes—the birth and parentage of Euclid—the amours and idiosyncracies of Cardan the burning alive of Giordano Bruno and Vanini the simplicity and ingenious nature of the moral character of Spinoza—or the interesting peculiarities of Sir Isaac Newton’s dog?