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success, notwithstanding serious impediments in 

 boyhood]. 



" Father A most energetic man ; all for 

 practical pursuits. Mother An unusually strong 

 mind, and steady love and search for knowledge." 



34. " Walked from Cambridge to London in a 

 day. At the age of sixty-eight ascended the Piz 

 Corvatsch, in the Engadine. In mind. [Facts 

 evidencing considerable energy are quoted.] 



" Father Fond of exercise ; a good walker. 

 Mother decidedly active bodily habits," 



35. " I am decidedly lazy ; but with due 

 stimulus could always get through a great amount 

 of physical work, and was rather the better for it. 

 In mind As a boy, I worked for three months 

 all day and all night, with not more than four or 

 five hours' sleep. When full of a subject and 

 interested in it, I have written for seven or eight 

 hours without interruption, and without feeling 

 any notable fatigue." 



36. "In early life as a boy I was engaged in 

 business from twelve to fourteen hours a day, yet 



