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[Energy of body, &c.] 26. "Energy shown by much activity, and, whilst I had health, power of resisting fatigue. I and one other man were alone able to fetch water for a large party of officers and men utterly prostrated [other facts given in illustration of undoubted energy.] In mind— Shown by vigorous and long-continued work on same subject, as twenty years on .... and nine years on . . . .

"Father Great power of endurance, although feeling much fatigue, as after consultations after long journeys; very active; not restless. In mind Habitually very active, as shown in conversation with a succession of people during the whole day."

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1. A most eminent biologist wrote as follows, in reply to the inquiry whether he had any special tastes bearing on scientific success, in addition to those for his own line of investigation: "I have no special talent except for business, as evinced by keeping accounts, being regular in correspondence, and investing money very well."

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[Memory?]

5. "Memory very bad for dates and for learning by rote, but [extraordinarily] good in retaining a general or vague recollection of many facts.

"Father Wonderful memory for dates; in old age he told a person, reading aloud to him a book only once read in youth, the passages which were coming; he knew the birthdays and those of the deaths, &c., of all his friends and acquaintances."

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[Independence of Judgment?]

6. "I gave up common religious belief, almost independently from my own reflection."

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BIOLOGY.
Zoological Subsection.

(2) "Certainly innate Strongly confirmed and directed by the voyage in the . . . ."

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DEMERITS: NARROW EDUCATION THIRTY-TWO

(1) "No mathematics nor modern languages, nor any habits of observation or reasoning."