The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-02
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he have passed in study, and thought,
and practice, TO accomplish what he
did in his after years. DR.. Arnold.
OF Rugby, at 40 learned the German
language, purposely that he might
read Nieburgh's works.
| Sir Isaac Newton likened the
acquisition OF knowledge to gathering
shells upon the sea shore, and said
that what discoveries be accomplished
was "by patience and perseverance,.
and hy always thinking about them. %
Though be first thought out the
law OF gravitstion at 25 years OF age.
he did net give it to the world till
after he was 30. and he had proven
it by repeated Investigation and re-
search. But humility has often been
a characteristic of greatness, and Sir
Isaac was too intently engage1 in
stu y and reflection to give much at
teption to thoughts Of his own ability.
He was a weakly, sickly child, born
prematurely. through sorrow brought
on bis mUther by the dea b OF bis
father, yet hs survived all mis- youth.
ful troubles and lived to a good
Old age, one of the most honored
men of England. He WAS dull and
linattentive to his studies as boy,
always at the foot of bis class, the
butt and sport of his schoolfelIows,
and bis awakening to the duties aud
responsibilities of life took place in a
|, singular, and We may cay an original
manner. It was 10 consequence of q
fight he bad with a larger and
stronger boy. who had long MAIN
tanned the head. place in the class,
who one day put upon Newton so
much, that after school hours be
challenged him to fight. The battle
was q severe one for the weakly boy,
but bis determination and persist.
ence wearied out the strength of his
adversary and he won the fight.
Victor in the game OF fisticufs, be
determined to be victor in his studies
too. and by intense application be
rose step by step to the second place
in the class. Then the struggle be-
came more severe. the one to main.
tain and the other to gain the first
position, and it was only after a pro-
tracted period OF continued applica.
tiou that Newton won it. But once
won he never afterwards lost it, and
his studious habits be continued from
that time onward; but fighting is bad,
and if in this instance it had bene-
fetal effect. in thousand others it
would be injurious.
Great minds do not always recog-
rizs their own greatness, and when
they compare their own knowledge
with the vast aggregate of intelli-
gence and wisdom yet to be won,
they are liable rather to underrate
than to over. estimate their acquire
ments. Sir Walter Scott, in his auto
has said, Through every
part of my literary career / have ielt
piuched and hampered at my own
ignorance" Yet how many persons
of infinitely less intellectual power
aud vigor would be willing to make a
similar declaration Yet such
would be no lesssning OF
dignity nor self respect, for if sincere,
it ia but recognition OF the vastness
Of truth and the in6nitude of the
creations of Deity, in comparison
with the greatest advance possibl5 to
human intellect. Such an expression
ia only contemplate when uttered
with The view OF eliciting applause
rom others.
Impatience under trial and Diff
Guilty has never a beneficial effect
upon character. Trial and difficulty
sll may expect who wish to become
thorough in what they study. As Dr..
Johnson said, "There is no royal road
to learning, though there is popular
one" just what that popular one is
persons will have to judge Tor them
selves, but to be of use it will have to
be consistently and perseveringly fol.
owed. The means at hand for ad-
may be insufficient, but
sitting down and acknowledging the
insuperabls nature of q difficulty,
never adds to the power of ever
coming it. An aptitude for expert
ment, the faculty for adapting means
10 ends. and OF creating necessary
means where they are wanting, has
ever distinguished the strongest
minds. A simple thread and q few
beads sufficed for Ferguson to COM
pute the relative distances of stars
and planets. While tending his
COCKS amid the glens and hills OF his
native Highland home be made him
,elf acquainted with astronomy.
Bloomfield, the poet, was shoe
maker, and wrote his earlier poems
IN scraps of leather, with an awl for
\ pencil. Clifford, editor of the
Quarterly Reciea0. was spprenticed to
} shoemaker and made his fret CAL
,ulations in mathematics on scrar
If leather in the came way. Faraday
worked his way 10 from the carpen-
er's bench to a foremost position and
became the fret chemist and phil.
,sopher CT bis day. But intense study
md thought, acting upon naturally
,oo1 faculties. made them what tney
became
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