Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — Creatures of Circumstance. [ARTICLE]

Creatures of Circumstance.

“I suppose you had always a great fancy for surgery?" people often used to say to Sir. Benjamin Biodio, the great English surgeon of the <Ttiy. The truth was that he had’ no more taste lor it than a fop for a pole-cat. He went into the business because there was nothing else for him to do. It is not at all probable that the elder Bennett ever had any youthful aspirations in the direction of journalism, or that A. T, Stewart ever

thought of becoming ft merchant. Stephenson was not an inventor because be willed to be one; nor Edison an electrician because that was the dream of his boyhood. These men followed the beut of their owy gepius, and for them it was along the lksfebf least resistance.