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Aubyn' which had fired his youthful imagination, he found he did not really enjoy lingering in the combination-room over port and walnuts. In order to deceive the sun into shining, he brought with him, even on a fine May afternoon, what he called his 'anti-God battery'. In practical applications we are concerned only with comparatively small numbers; only stellar astronomy and atomic physics deal with 'large' numbers, and they have very little more practical importance, as yet, than the most abstract pure mathematics. Hardy was not only bored, but irritated. But science works for evil as well as for good (and particularly, of course, in time of war); and both Gauss and lesser mathematicians may be justified in rejoicing that there is one science at any rate, and that their own, whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean. 'There goes a Greek poet, I'll be bound,' once said some cheerful farmer as Hardy passed the score-board. Later, he admitted that he had been well-educated, but he admitted it reluctantly. Shakespeare had an enormous influence on the development of the English language, Otway next to none, but that is not why Shakespeare was the better poet. Hardy was sensible about money, spent it when he felt impelled (sometimes for singular purposes, such as fifty-mile taxi-rides), and otherwise was not at all unworldly about investments. This was so unlike him that I wanted to forget, and I tried, by a kind of irony, to smear over what had just been said