One multi-millionaire of Boston, whose first wages he told me were but four dollars a month, said there was no one he so dreaded to see coming into his office as a college man who must have help,--seldom able to write a legible hand, or to add correctly a column of figures.

There is solid food for thought.
* * * * * Lowell said that "great men come in clusters." That is true, but it is equally true that once in a great while, we are vouchsafed a royal guest, a man who mingles freely with the ordinary throng, yet stands far above them; a man who can wrest the primal secrets from nature's closed hand, who makes astounding discoveries, only to gladly disclose them to others.
Such an unusual genius was Professor Robert Ogden Doremus, whose enthusiasm was only matched by his modesty.

In studying what he accomplished, I wonder whether he was not sent from the central yet universal "powers that be" to give us answers to some of the riddles of life; or had he visited so many planets further advanced than our own--for as Jean Paul Richter wrote "There is no end"-- that he had learned that the supposedly impossible could be done.

He assisted John W.Draper in taking the first photograph of the human face ever made.
Science with him was never opposed to religion.

His moving pictures and spectral analysis were almost miracles at that time.