Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts his own inclinations society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat but not completely because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations how one wants to proportion these things.
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations they will struggle and snatch from each other and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature but result from the social process which creates man.
People usually think according to their inclinations speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions but generally act according to custom.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.