All the while, he was pursuing the
course of his electrical studies, making fresh inventions, taking
up the phonograph, filled with theories of graphic representation;
reading, writing, publishing, founding sanitary associations,
interested in technical education, investigating the laws of metre,
drawing, acting, directing private theatricals, going a long way to
see an actor - a long way to see a picture; in the very bubble of
the tideway of contemporary interests. And all the while he was
busied about his father and mother, his wife, and in particular his
sons; anxiously watching, anxiously guiding these, and plunging
with his whole fund of youthfulness into their sports and
interests. And all the while he was himself maturing - not in
character or body, for these remained young - but in the stocked
mind, in the tolerant knowledge of life and man, in pious
acceptance of the universe. Here is a farrago for a chapter: here
is a world of interests and activities, human, artistic, social,
scientific, at each of which he sprang with impetuous pleasure, on
each of which he squandered energy, the arrow drawn to the head,
the whole intensity of his spirit bent, for the moment, on the
momentary purpose.
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