text: " These are cases which have occurred in every man's experience: men read ten hours a-day with a watch by their side cramming in stuff that they do not understand are talked about as "sure firsts" till one gets sick of their very names assume all the airs which really able men seldom do assume and take at last an equal degree with others who have been acquiring the same amount of knowledge with infinitely less pretension and who without moping the best part of their lives in an artificial existence will make more useful members of society in the end