Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1874 — The Genius of Energy. [ARTICLE]

The Genius of Energy.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity. You : will learn that all the traditions so current among young men that certain great characters have I wrought their greatness by an inspiration, as it were, grow out of a ! great mistake. And you will fur- j ther find, when you come to meas-1 ure yourself with men, that there are no rivals so formidable as those j earnest, determined minds which reckon the value of every hour and which achieve eminence by persistent application.