THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 70.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1858. [Price U . 
BUSY. 
The readers of the ‘Times’ were 
lately edified with a synopsis of a 
year’s doings of “ A Lancashire In- 
cumbent.” He had “ made 1036 
visits to the people in their houses, 
preached 121 sermons, attended 221 
meetings of societies, read 90 volumes, 
exclusive of pamphlets, reviews, &c., 
written 5 magazine articles, 3 short 
papers for learned societies, 12 articles 
of a more fugitive character; he had 
made 21 speeches and delivered 9 
public lectures, besides editing a pam- 
phlet of 90 pages and a volume of 
300 pages; he had written 1200 let- 
ters, had visited Wales three times, 
Ireland twice, the Isle of Man once, 
and London and Oxford once;” and 
yet this was no hermit debarring him- 
self from society, in order to effect 
his maximum of work, — “ he had shared 
the hospitality of friends on 165 sepa- 
rate days.” 
Now, of course, what has been done 
once may be done again, and we 
quote all this to show what an almost 
incredible amount of work may be 
done in a given time by method and 
determination, — we all know that by 
practice the same occupation gets to 
be done with far greater facility and 
in less time. “ The discharge of so 
many duties involves antecedently a 
large amount of training or expe- 
rience, so as to secure great facility 
in their performance.” “ The variety, 
which to some is the most remarkable 
fact, in reality goes far to explain the 
whole ; for men of only one or two 
pursuits waste a good deal of time in 
absolute rest, vacuity of thought, or 
trifling, when they might secure re- 
laxation quite as great, and far greater 
satisfaction and usefulness, by a simple 
change of occupation.” 
We have no wish to dishearten any 
of our readers by placing before them 
an unattainable standard of industry 
but we are anxious to impress on 
each and every one that they are 
capable of far more work than they at 
present perform, and the main thing 
they need is a move systematic plan 
and a greater degree of method in per- 
formance. For, as Bacon says, “Above 
all things, order and distribution, and 
singling out of parts is the life of 
dispatch, so as the distribution be not 
too subtle; for he that doth not divide 
will never enter well into business, 
and he that divideth too much will 
never come out of it clearly.” 
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