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as he called it, absorbed all his surplus energies. While busily occupied in collecting models and specimens for the museum, he filled up his odds-and-ends of time in lecturing in Ragged Schools and Medical Missionary Societies. He gave himself no rest, either of mind or body; and
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was the fate he envied. His mind would not give in, but his poor body was forced to yield, and a sever attack of hemorrhage--bleeding from both lungs and stomach--compelled him to relax in his labors.
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For a month, or some forty days, he wrote--
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Yet shortly after, to help a Sunday school, he wrote his
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Five Gateways of Knowledge, as a lecture, and afterward expanded it into a book. He also recovered strength sufficient to enable him to proceed with his lectures to the institutions to which he belonged, besides on various occasions undertaking to do other people's work.
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I am looked upon as being as mad, he wrote to his brother,
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My only painless moments. he says,
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In this state of prostration and disease, the indefatigable man undertook to write the
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Life of Edward Forbes; and he did it, like every thing he undertook, with admirable ability. He proceeded with his lectures as usual. To an association of teachers he delivered a discourse on the educational value of industrial science. After he had spoken to his audience for an hour, he left them to say whether he should go on or not, and they cheered him on to another half-hour's address.
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It is curious, he wrote,
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I spin my thread of life from week to week, rather than from year to year.