In the same way, Sergey Brin and Larry Page initially resisted supporting their search engine with advertising: "The issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm, " they wrote in 1998.
As Mr Johnston's painstakingly detailed account slowly reveals, Wordsworth's search for his political identity was a messy business, mixed up with sex, money, friendship and deep emotion areas which his maturer self was less than comfortable exposing.