El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-07

NE-NiCS dccOmpHsheS its objects by
II the labor which conquers all
things and the very capacity or
intense and intent labor is Of itself
OF the nature of genius.
Michael Angelo had a positive hun
ger for work He rose in the middle
Of the night TO resume the Iabors OF
the day.
Leonardo Da Vinci was distinguished
for his painstaking efforts.
Van Dyke was interchangeable in his
application.
Joshua Reynolds. TO use his own
words, "labOred as hard as a mechanic
working FOR his bread
Seven Years at One Task
Michael Angelo worked seven years
decorating the ~Sistine Chapel with
his matchless Creation" and the Last
Judgment"
-, Titan spent seven years on his
Last Supper
Goethe. that tireless toiler. honored
with a visit from an exalted monarch.
suddenly slipped away for a few
minutes. in the midst Of an interest
II z conversation and went into another
room 10 write down an idea which had
Just struck him for his Faust
TO WOrk, was part Of S0uthey's re-
Igion-
Carlyle, who never wrote a sentence
or his great histories till he had
searched every authority in the sresf
Libraries. to use his own words werJsej
ing"
Edmund Kean, the great actor, prac-
tlced his characters constantly beforaN
the glass. studying expression for 1S
months before appearing in public.
Inc astronomers, Gallileo and Cor
penicus. were diligent night watchers
10 the end Of their lives
William HerschelI and his afs+a-
Caroline exhibited unwsared actfvif1
IN astronomical observation and caIcTI
lation down to the close OF their lives
respectively at 50 and IS.
Handel wa sa constant worker ave,
after ne had been partially disabled
by paralysis.
Mozart's Requiem was written uDon
ms aeath-3ed, working upon 1t al
most 10 his latest breath
Bayle, writing OF Meyerbeer, said:
ne HFes alone. working Is hours a
DAY at music but Meyergeer Ia no
genius. A few years later, borne
enthusiasm, the world procIsined
Meyerbeer a genius. his secret lav n
labor, 10 hours a day.
. Ole Sui. who never played second
nddie 10 anyone, said: If practice
one day: can see the result II I
see II, II practice three DAYS the
great public can see it"
stephenson worked IS years on 2
eondensing engine.
Elihu Burritt. who had to work AZ
me Forge all through the daylight BY
SEEING every opportunity and improv-
ing IT, had made himself at 80. master.
OF every important language in EuroDs
ana was studying those OF Asia.
Demostneness urged to speak in a
sudden emergency, had the courage
70 say; am not prepared" HIS
genius lay in thorough preparstfon
Gladstone's knowledge and Work.
Gladstone who knew more Creek .
man IN professors. more medicine than
All lne doctors. more law than all
the lawyers, more theology than All
the preachers. and more OF the Science
OF government than all the statesmen
IN spite OF the consciousness Of his
wonderful natural endowments. was as
tolls.
Edison. the most useful man Of the
-gth century, describing his repeated
produce an aspirated sound said.
rom IS to 20 hours a day for the
last seven months I have worked on
this single word -Specia-' I said into
the monograph, -specia, specia, speeia,'
but the instrument responded. 'pecia-
pecia. pecia-' II was enough TO drive
one mad But held firm and I have
succeeded.
Isaac Newton, who sought with all
comprehensive grasp to sncircle the
universe OF God, remarked that the
only faculty in which he excelled other
men was in the power he possessed
OF keeping problem before his mind
and perpetually thinking over it and
testing il by repeated inquiry. until
he had succeeded in effecting its So
luton
Won Humboldt was as prodigious in
ms laoors as he was enormous in his 4
requirements.
Martin Luther. in whom conferred all
the great movements Of his time. could
never be idle: work became the habit
OF his life
John Calvin's Iabors. in spite Of his
IN health. were incessant.
John Knox was a man OF uncon-
querable energy.
John Wesley's secret OF success was
his indefatigable industry he rose at
tour IN the morning
The quality Of Buttons genius is -
generally recognized, but he explained
X in his own words 7 spent 50 years
1t my desk"
Not Genius BY STUDY.
Alexander Hamilton. who formu-
ated our federal constitution. estab-
ished ethe financial policy Of the re-
public, the greatest genius OF the revO-
ution. said Men give me credit for
genius All the genius I have lies Just
n this: When 1 have subject in 7
hand I study it profoundly"
Daniel Webster. Americas most
rersed statesman. declared; 7 have
worked more than - hours a day for
70 years on an average
Illustrations might be multiplied in
definitely to prove that the law of
abor is equally binding on genius and
nediocrity.
Coleridge called genius. the faculty
II growth" while John Foster defined
{ as the power Of lighting ones own
ire =
Genius is intense energy. No man =
viii ever become great unless he de-
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