' When Dr Johnson felt. or fancied he felt, his fancy disordered, his constant recurrence was to the study of arithmetic' said James Boswell. Arithmetic is perhaps a curious therapy for a man best known as a wit, writer and lexicographer. Did Boswell perceive something literary critics have missed?
Written by JOHN CRAIG. Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys. Presented by Geoff Watts Reader TIMOTHY BATESON
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