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the streets, return and set to work again, and thus make two 
separate days out of one.” One of Darwin’s favourite sayings was 
that, “Saving the minutes was the way to get work done.” His 
son tells us that the peculiarities of his indoor dress were : that he 
always wore a shawl over his shoulders, and that he had great 
loose cloth boots, lined with fur, which he could slip over his 
indoor shoes. Like most delicate people, he suffered from the 
heat as well as the cold. Often a mental cause would make him 
too hot, so that he would take off his coat if anything went out of 
the common in the course of his work. For those who experience 
anything of the paralysing feelings of fatigue, his method of work 
is worth considering. He rose early and took a short turn before 
breakfast. He considered the hour and a half between eight and 
nine thirty one of his best working times. At nine thirty he came 
into the drawing room with his letters. He would then hear any 
family letters read aloud as he lay on the sofa. The reading 
aloud, which also included part of a novel, lasted till about half- 
past ten, when he went back to work till twelve or a quarter past. 
By this time he considered his day’s work over, and would often 
say in a Satisfied voice, ‘‘I have done a good day’s work.” He 
then went out of doors whether wet or fine. He would often 
work up to the very limit of his strength, and would suddenly 
stop in dictating, with the words, “I believe I must do 
no more.” Thus for forty years he worked bravely on resting 
frequently to escape fatigue, and, in this manner, he was able to 
complete his life’s work, He died at the age of seventy-three. 
On the other hand, Sir James Paget was altogether a stronger 
man, and never experienced this fatigue, except when con- 
valescing from some illness. He passed Darwin’s age by twelve 
years. After his death, his friend Sir T. Smith wrote of him: 
“During the period of his active life, and until strength failed 
him, his demon in the Socratic sense was work, and he had but 
little patience with or sympathy for those who pleaded that they 
had no time for work. If you have no time, I suppose you can 
make time, and the more you have to do the more you can do.” 
These are hard sayings, but he applied them to himself in his 
own work. Paget showed a complete disregard of his health and 
personal comfort, and in his vacation his pleasure would have 
been rather hard work to most of us. Now I am not contrasting 
Paget with Darwin that I may hold him up as a model for our 
copying. In work, both as regards the manner and the amount, 
each man must be a law unto himself, within certain limits. 
Before you can follow Paget’s method of work you must 
follow him in securing an ancestry remarkable for its longevity 
and its vigour. Before you can expect to escape fatigue, as he 
escaped it, you must have the great capacity for constant function, 
as he possessed it. For most brain workers Darwin is a safer 
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