My sixtieth birthday is a thing of yesterday, and Ihave, therefore, more than half descended the westernslope. I have no quarrel with life or with time, for bothhave been polite to me; and I wish to give an account ofthe past seven years to prove the politeness of life, and toshow how time has made amends to me for the forcedresignation of my professional ambitions. For twenty-fiveyears, up to 1895, I practised medicine and surgery in alarge city. I loved my profession beyond the love of mostmen, and it loved me; at least, ...
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My sixtieth birthday is a thing of yesterday, and Ihave, therefore, more than half descended the westernslope. I have no quarrel with life or with time, for bothhave been polite to me; and I wish to give an account ofthe past seven years to prove the politeness of life, and toshow how time has made amends to me for the forcedresignation of my professional ambitions. For twenty-fiveyears, up to 1895, I practised medicine and surgery in alarge city. I loved my profession beyond the love of mostmen, and it loved me; at least, it gave me all that areasonable man could desire in the way of honors andemoluments. The thought that I should ever drop out ofthis attractive, satisfying life, never seriously occurred tome, though I was conscious of a strong and persistentforce that urged me toward the soil. By choice and bytraining I was a physician, and I gloried in my work; butby instinct I was, am, and always shall be, a farmer. Allmy life I have had visions of farms with flocks and herds, but I did not expect to realize my visions until I came onearth a second time
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