. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. erbury at Lady Margaret Hallfor the Honour School of Philosophy. He wasspecially interested in the fact, because she was thefirst woman he had taught, and he said he expectedto discern at once the feminine difference betweenher and his men-pupils. This difference he did not,however, discover; but he was from the firstastonished at the extraordinary keenness of herintellect, and by a combination of powers in herwhich he thought were seldom found in the sameperson,—her comprehensive view of a subject as awhole, and her incisive and unerring powerof
. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. erbury at Lady Margaret Hallfor the Honour School of Philosophy. He wasspecially interested in the fact, because she was thefirst woman he had taught, and he said he expectedto discern at once the feminine difference betweenher and his men-pupils. This difference he did not,however, discover; but he was from the firstastonished at the extraordinary keenness of herintellect, and by a combination of powers in herwhich he thought were seldom found in the sameperson,—her comprehensive view of a subject as awhole, and her incisive and unerring powerof could entirely identify herself with certain viewsand opinions, and at the same time stand com-pletely detached, and balance the arguments for andagainst her position with what he called absoluteremorselessness. He always lamented that shecould not read for Greats in the ordinary way,and thought it a gross injustice, for he would haveliked her work to be compared with that of themen of her own standing. He was convinced that 52. Pholo by Frcdk. Argall, Tiiiio.] about 19. [To face page 53. LADY MARGARET HALL she had a brilliant future before her, and that shewould do great and original work in afterwards, when she consulted him about theearly chapters of The Venture of Rational Faith, hesaid to me : * It is extraordinary how she hasdeveloped. I reminded him of the femininedifference, and he said : Yes. I can see somethingof it now. The remorselessness is gone, but shehas gained enormously in power and sympathy. My brother himself appeared to me in those daysa perfect monument of learning, and it was thereforewith a good deal of curiosity that on the first nightof my own residence at Lady Margaret Hall, as astudent, I scanned the faces of the older membersof the College to discern this wonder amongstwomen, whose intellect had made such an im-pression upon him. He was no hand at personaldescription, and I was quite at sea. I fixed uponthe one that
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