Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-19

TYNDALL's YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCEs.-
Not as servant of Mammon do | ask
you to ia ke science to your hearts, but as
the strengthener and en!ightener of the
mind Of man. Might ! now address a
word or two to those who in the ardor of
youth feel themselves drawn toward science
as vocation. They must, if possible, in
crease their fidelity to original research,
prizing far more than the possession Of
wealth an honorable standing in science.
They must, [ think, be prepared at times
to suffer little for the sake of scientific
righteousness, not refusing, should occasion
demand it, to live low and lie hard to
achieve the object of their lives. | do
not here urge anything upon others that |
should have been unwilling to do myself
when young. lie. me give you line of
personal history. In 1913, wishing to
improve myself in science, [ went to the
university of Marsburg-the same old
town in which my great namesake, when
even poorer than myself, published his
translation of the Bible | lodged in the
painest manner, in street which, per
haps bore an appropriate name while
dwelt upon it. 1t was called the Ketzer-
bach-the heretic's brook-from a little
historic rivulet running through it. l
wished to keep myself clean and hardy
so purchased a cask and had it cut into
by a carpenter. Half that cask, filed
with spring water over night, was placed
10 my small bedroom, and never during
the years that | spent there, in winter or
in summer. had the clock of the beautiful
Elizabetherkirche, which was close at hand,
finished striking the hour of six in the
morning before [ was in nv tub For a
good portion Of the time | rose an hour
and a half earlier than this, working by
lamp light at the different calculus when
the world was slumbering round me. And
| risked this breach in my pursuits aud
this expenditure of time and money, not
because | had any definite prospect of
material profit in view, but because |
thought the cultivation of the intellect
lmportant-because, moreover, [ loved my
work, and entertained the sure and certain
hope that, armed with knowledge, one can
successfully fight ones way through the
world 1t is with the view of giving
others the chance that then enjoyed that
| propose to devote the surplus of the
money which you have so generously
poured in upon me, to the education of
the young philosophers in Germany
| ought not, for their sake, to omit one
additional motive by which was upheld
at the time here referred to-that was a
sense of duty. Every young man of high
aims must, think, have spice of this
principle within him. There are sure to
be hours in his life when his outlook will
be dark, his work difficult, and his intel
lectual future uncertain. Over such peri
DDS, when the stimulus of success is absent
he must be carried by his sense of duty
1t may not be so quick an incentive as
glory, but is nobler one, and gives tone
to character which glory cannot impart
That unhinching devotion to work, with,
out which no real eminence in science is
now attainable. implies the writing at GER
tain times of the stern resolve upon the
students character work, not be.
cause like to work, but because | ought
to work" In science, however, love and
duty are sure to be rendered identical in
the end.