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always found time to study and make my own 

 instruments. Later on, my studies and scientific 

 work were always accomplished after business 

 hours ; and it was generally my habit to commence 

 work after dinner, and to work in science until 

 two, three, or four in the morning, and to begin 

 work in business again at nine. I never thought 

 of rest if I had anything in hand of interest. 

 " Father Eemarkably active and capable of 

 sustaining an amount of bodily exertion which 

 would have destroyed the health of most men ; 

 for example, I have known him sustain great 

 fatigue for eighteen hours out of the twenty-four 

 for months at a stretch. A great walker. In 

 mind Of indomitable activity ; a great reader ; 

 always at work in applying discoveries in .... 

 to the arts ; an untiring worker in anything he 

 undertook. Mother Busily active ; great and 

 rapid reader of current literature perhaps had 

 read almost every book of interest in fiction 

 which appeared." 



37. "Used to work all day at business, and 

 one half or three-quarters of the night at science. 



