Karl Pearson’s Great Idea

Abstract

Almost immediately after he began, Karl gave up the practice of law. Yet, the pressures for him to succeed were almost unrelenting. To free him from the forces of familial conformation, he joined the intellectual circles of London. He lectured locally at the intellectual clubs in Soho, including the Men and Women’s Club. While he considered himself a man of numbers, others increasingly viewed him as a man of words.