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his assistants, he could not bear the sight or presence of any weeds. This was part of his
drive towards order, neatness, and perfection.”
• Described as imperious, dictatorial, autocratic 206 (TJ)
• Described as having a “need to dominate and control” 207 (TJ)
• Described as being a forceful, wilful, and authoritarian leader 208 (TJ)
• Precise, meticulous, exact, strict, accurate (INTJs favored most among NTs)
General
Newton was born on Christmas in 1642, dooming him to
get only half as many presents as other kids. His father
died before he was born, and Newton was raised by his
mother until he was three. Then she then remarried and
left him in the care of her parents while she went to live
with her new husband. She didn't return until Newton was
ten. When one considers that Child C could read by the
time he was three, it can readily be understood how
Newton might have felt at being left by his mother like
this. He would later draw up a list of his sins for this time
in which he recorded, “Threatning my father and mother
Smith to burne them and the house over them.”
Newton was not a warm, huggly INTJ. He was not even a
healthy INTJ; an acquaintance described him as having the
“most fearful, cautious and suspicious temper that I ever
knew.” He bristled at the slightest sign of rejection.
When Newton was twelve, he was enrolled in grammar
school. One of the schoolgirls there later recalled him as a
“sober, silent, thinking lad” who “was [never] known to play with the boys abroad.” Academically
speaking, he was almost at the bottom of his class. It did not stay this way, however.
One day, when he was walking to school, the kid walking next to him gave him a hard kick in the
stomach. Newton sought satisfaction at the next possible opportunity:
[A]s soon as the school was over he challenged the boy to fight, & they went out together into the Church
yard, the schoolmaster's son came to them whilst they wer fighting & clapped one on the back & winked
at the other to encourage them both. Tho S r Isaac was not so lusty as his antagonist he had so much more
spirit & resolution that he beat him till he declared he would fight no more, upon w ch the schoolmaster's
son bad him use him like a Coward, & rub his nose against the wall & accordingly Sr Isaac pulled him
along by the ears & thrust his face against the side of the Church.
(Don't ask me what's up with the superscripts. Apparently it's a 1600s thing.) As it turns out, this
incident was the impetus for Newton's academic success. Having physically dominated his
adversary, he decided to mentally dominate him too.
Not content with this bodily victory he could not rest till he had got above him in the school, & though
before he never minded his book (as you may beleive said he, by my being the last in the form) he from
that time began to follow it with great application, he had several contests with his adversary, got his
206 Ackroyd, 2006; White, 1997
207 Ackroyd, 2006
208 Ackroyd, 2006