He returned to school in his tenth year with powers
of study quite unimpaired by his accident. It was soon
found that in the private institution to which he was
sent no other pupil could keep pace with him, and
accordingly he was transferred to a secondary school,
which was under the direction of the Jesuits. Here
also he remained only a short time, partly because of
what he regarded as an act of injustice in his teachers,
and partly because they proceeded so slowly with their
instructions. For a time he studied without aid, but
with intense ardour, often sitting over his book the
whole night. Very properly his mother tried to check
this excess of zeal, but otherwise he seems to have been
left by his parents to pursue his own course. His
private study of logic led him to attend the lectures of
a Jesuit teacher, Antonio del BaJzo, whom he describes
as a nominalist. At the same time he read the ' Sum-
mulse' of Petrus Hispanus and of Paulus Venetus.
