Mere priority is sometimes a great advantage in this class of invention, and there are no fees to pay for it nor deputy-lieutenant-vice-go-betweens' antechambers for genius to cool its heels and heart in.
But one thing soon became evident.

He could not work his inventions without a much larger capital.
Dr.Amboyne and he put their heads together over this difficulty, and the doctor advised him in a more erudite style than usual.
"True invention," said he, "whether literary or mechanical, is the highest and hardest effort of the mind.

It is an operation so absorbing that it often weakens those pettier talents which make what we call the clever man.

Therefore the inventor should ally himself with some person of talent and energy, but no invention.

Thus supported, he can have his fits of abstraction, his headaches, his heartaches, his exultations, his depressions, and no harm done; his dogged associate will plow steadily on all the time.