Excerpt from Notes and Recollections of a Professional Life

There are few observant minds to whom the pursuit of knowledge does not bring that pleasure which seems to be the certain concomitant of honest inquiry, but there are some so constituted that they even feel a greater pleasure in communicating to others the knowledge they may possess. To few does this seem to have been a more imperious matter of necessity than to the author of the present volume, who, whenever a truth flashed on his mind, or any new discovery struck him, hastened to communicate it orally to his friends, and to publish it to the world in any of the newspapers or periodicals whose purpose it suited to open their columns to receive it.

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