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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 6.

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"Lord Byron," says Leigh Hunt, "used to go about humming all the morning, and reserved his serious work for the night." He said himself in a conversation with Lieut. Medwyn, that he largely used "the inspiration of gin" to keep up tired and flagging nature. Schiller resembled him in both habits. What was the consequence? Byron died at 36. Schiller lived on to 60, but with a broken constitution and shattered energies. The fire of genius blazed with intense and wasteful brilliancy in both, but soon burned itself out. Night labor and the inspiration of gin will make short work with the most robust constitution.