Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . nning at the beginning, theuncle took a slate and made the mark of apoint upon it. * What is A dot,answered the boy. Try again.* * A tick,was the final reply. The boy knew the dotover the letter i in his copy book, and thetick used in games upon the slate, but themathematicians point was a thing totally un-known. EARLY YEARS. 5 Under the impulse of his early readings,however, he took something of an unconsciousHterary turn, different from his brothers, whohad all taken to commerce or the sea. Whena child, he formed the resolution of being aminist
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . nning at the beginning, theuncle took a slate and made the mark of apoint upon it. * What is A dot,answered the boy. Try again.* * A tick,was the final reply. The boy knew the dotover the letter i in his copy book, and thetick used in games upon the slate, but themathematicians point was a thing totally un-known. EARLY YEARS. 5 Under the impulse of his early readings,however, he took something of an unconsciousHterary turn, different from his brothers, whohad all taken to commerce or the sea. Whena child, he formed the resolution of being aminister. This resolution sprang from none ofthe stirrings of early piety, of which we some-times hear; he showed none of the religiousimpressions which might have been expectedof one brought up in such an exemplary was merely because at that time the ministerwas the greatest and cleverest of men in theeyes of a country boy; and if such a boy hadany intellectual ambition in him, he generallyaspired to distinguish himself in the pulpit. II. FORMATION OF THE FUTURE MAN.
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