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while the business man and financier for whom the accumulation of 

 wealth is a desideratum, or the lawyer and the doctor who must com- 

 mand a practise, or the minister who needs a congregation, must with 

 the same period of intellectual infancy enter it from the bottom and 

 devote a few more years to the climbing process. In so far as the 

 physician is an investigator, the conditions of the scientist apply to 

 him, and no doubt the considerable number who are such accounts for 

 the fact that his recognition comes earlier than that of his competitors 

 in law and the pulpit. The surprising thing of the figures is perhaps 

 the slowness with which the inventor gains a foothold in the ladder 

 of fame. Not one of those mentioned was below the age of forty years, 

 though the group is too small to give this fact much weight. 



Although women are not included in the table given, the study of 

 those mentioned in ' Who's Who ' shows that upon the stage and in 

 musical circles recognition is much earlier for them than for men, 

 while in all other callings it is slower. This would seem to suggest 

 that attractiveness of person is at a greater premium with her than with 

 her brother, and perhaps makes up for some other defects. When how- 

 ever this is outlived with youth, the struggle seems to be a hard, if not 

 a losing one. 



